an independent firm specializing in design and production, as of illustrated books or television programmes which are sold to publishers or television companies as finished products
packager in American English
(ˈpækədʒər)
noun
1.
a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale
a soap packager.
2.
a person or firm that creates and assembles a tour, television show, book, or other product and offers it for sale, use, exhibition, etc., in a completed form
a packager of European vacations
a packager of rock shows
Word origin
[1955–60; package + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1955–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: backgrounder, cassette, life-support, opioid, rollout-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)
Examples of 'packager' in a sentence
packager
The company does not own its own livestock or abattoirs, acting as a distributor and packager of meat.