单词 | pre-package |
释义 | pre-packagen. A prepackaged item, esp. of food; = pre-pack n. Also: the prepackaging of goods. Frequently, and in earliest use, attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > container or package for goods > [noun] > specific woolpack1297 bag-in-a-box1943 pre-package1946 pre-pack1951 Tetra Pak1953 blister package1954 vacuum packaging1954 blister pack1964 ballotin1974 1946 Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas) 26 Mar. 5/2 There will be so much saving in shipping weight, spoilage and bruising that the pre-package vegetables will cost no more. 1952 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 17 June 12/2 Pre-packages [of spinach] usually cost more, but it saves time and effort in preparing. 1956 Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel 7 June 22/3 (advt.) Wanted—Young woman in meat department for pre-package work. 1969 Times 24 July 23/4 Our work in developing pre-package techniques for fresh fish is helping to open an extensive new market through super-markets and chain stores. 2003 C. W. Bamforth Beer (ed. 2) viii. 164 Flash pasteurization for beer prepackage, typically on its way to kegs or heat-sensitive plastic bottles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pre-packagev. transitive. To package in advance or beforehand; esp. to package (food or other goods) at the site of production or before sale. Also occasionally intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > make into a pack or parcel > pre-pack pre-pack1926 pre-package1944 1944 N.Y. Times 7 June 24/2 Some retail stores will be set up in a central processing plant in which machinery will be utilized to prepackage economically. 1946 N.Y. Times 20 Jan. f5/6 Pre-packaging cheese and delicatessen products himself, his cheese sales volume jumped 600 per cent. 1956 Times 28 Oct. 11/6 Is not the egg ‘prepackaged’ by the hen? 1977 Sci. Amer. Sept. 147/2 The small computer systems that are prepackaged as stand-alone units. 1997 H. H. Tan Foreign Bodies (1998) xv. 136 Everything's been scrubbed down, made child-proof, and pre-packaged for public consumption. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1946v.1944 |
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