Definitions

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

  • noun A wrapped or boxed object; a parcel.
  • noun A container or wrapping in which something is stored, transported, or sold.
  • noun A commodity, such as food, contained in a package and sold as a unit.
  • noun A combination of items considered, offered, or sold as a unit.
  • noun Vulgar Slang A man's genitals.
  • transitive verb To place into a package or make a package of.
  • transitive verb To present or publicize in a certain way.
  • transitive verb To consider, offer, or sell as a unit.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bundle or parcel; a quantity pressed or packed together: as, a package of cloth.
  • noun A unit of freight or luggage; an article of transportation, as a box or a bundle.
  • noun A charge made for packing goods.
  • noun A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were sons of aliens.
  • noun A box, basket, or other receptacle in which perishable articles of food are packed for transportation. See the extract.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Act or process of packing.
  • noun A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel.
  • noun A charge made for packing goods.
  • noun A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
  • noun Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
  • noun The art of packing something.
  • noun Something resembling a package.
  • noun A package holiday.
  • noun A football formation. IE; the "dime" defensive package.
  • noun euphemistic The male genitalia.
  • verb To pack or bundle something.
  • verb To travel on a package holiday.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb put into a box
  • noun a wrapped container
  • noun (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory
  • noun a collection of things wrapped or boxed together

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From pack + -age (act of packaging) or from cognate Dutch pakkage.

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Examples

  • A package with goods inside declared at $51 USD - it's a parcel from the USA - add on customs charges and handling handling being the large part and that's an extra *half the cost of the orginal package*.

    I hate customs charges tenshi_a 2007

  • A package with goods inside declared at $51 USD - it's a parcel from the USA - add on customs charges and handling handling being the large part and that's an extra *half the cost of the orginal package*.

    Archive 2007-06-01 tenshi_a 2007

  • On TARGET system: for package in ` cat packages-on-DVD ` do QUERY = ` echo $package | cut - d ":" - f 2 `

    Fedora People Pablo Iranzo Gómez 2010

  • Our earliest evidence for the phrase package store, I am informed by Joanne Despres at Merriam-Webster, “is an entry in the 1918 Addenda to the New International Dictionary originally published in 1909, where it is labeled ‘cant, U.S.’”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Our earliest evidence for the phrase package store, I am informed by Joanne Despres at Merriam-Webster, “is an entry in the 1918 Addenda to the New International Dictionary originally published in 1909, where it is labeled ‘cant, U.S.’”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Expedia, believing that the term "package" has a lot to do with customer skepticism, is running a contest on

    NYT > Home Page By MICHELLE HIGGINS 2011

  • Expedia, believing that the term "package" has a lot to do with customer skepticism, is running a contest on

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  • This package is the first crucial step in a concerted effort to create and save 3 to 4 million jobs, jumpstart our economy, and begin the process of transforming it for the 21st century with $275 billion in economic recovery tax cuts and $550 billion in thoughtful and carefully targeted priority investments with unprecedented accountability measures built in. ...

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  • And all I get when I ask customer service why I haven't received my package is an apology and an explanation that the weather is causing the delay.

    UPS Coughs Up $50 But Still Hasn't Delivered Your Daughter's Christmas Present - The Consumerist 2009

  • Seattle as a package is a much more visually stunning city.

    The Rail~Volution Will Not Be Televised « PubliCola 2010

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