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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A type of paperboard used in making corrugated cartons.

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Examples

  • When the linerboard plant at Smurfit-Stone Container in Missoula, Mont., was shutting down, 29-year-old Roy Houseman became one of more than 400 workers in the cold.

    Middle-Class Struggles, Americans Treading Water In Gulf Between Rich And Poor AP 2010

  • Most of International Paper's business is tied to industrial and consumer packaging, and the brown boxes made from its linerboard are the most commonly used shipping containers in the world.

    Where Profits Aren't Just on Paper Sandra Ward 2011

  • One company I know had just negotiated 6 percent savings on linerboard, a dramatically fluctuating commodity.

    Jerry Jasinowski: The Next Generation of Cost Savings Jerry Jasinowski 2011

  • When the linerboard plant at Smurfit-Stone Container in Missoula, Mont., was shutting down, 29-year-old Roy Houseman became one of more than 400 workers in the cold.

    Middle-Class Struggles, Americans Treading Water In Gulf Between Rich And Poor AP 2010

  • That's especially good for Temple-Inland, which responds in a flash to higher linerboard prices, says Prudential's Rogers, who is forecasting that its earnings will more than double this year.

    Investing In The Raw 2008

  • But unlike its peers, China Sunshine Paper concentrates in the production and sale of white-top linerboard, light-coated linerboard and coreboard only.

    China Sunshine Prepares IPO 2007

  • A Sappi company, Ngodwana has been described as one of the largest integrated pulp and paper mills of its kind in the southern hemisphere, using 6000 tons of wood a day to produce pulp, linerboard and newsprint.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • The agreement also would immediately eliminate tariffs on imports of U.S. kraft linerboard, the stuff of cardboard boxes and Montana's sixth-largest export.

    Trade Beefs 2007

  • Just coincidentally, the upper Churchill, the Labrador linerboard mill and the Come by Chance refinery all passed through cabinet in the same time span.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Ed Hollett 2006

  • Then, we hooked up with a couple of other prize-winning buccaneers, John Shaheen and John C. Doyle and flung hundreds of millions of our dollars with both hands into a refinery and linerboard mill.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Ed Hollett 2006

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