MEAT PACKER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wholesaler in the meat-packing business

Synonyms:

meat packer; packer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("meat packer" is a kind of...):

jobber; middleman; wholesaler (someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers)

Instance hyponyms:

Gustavus Franklin Swift; Swift (United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903))

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