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- noun Plural form of
packinghouse .
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Examples
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"If people know English, they go to work in packinghouses or sit in an office."
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He cited as examples the fact that from 1970 to 1984 the number of female butchers in packinghouses had risen by more than a third and that by 1984 nearly 80 percent of new bartending jobs were going to women.
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He cited as examples the fact that from 1970 to 1984 the number of female butchers in packinghouses had risen by more than a third and that by 1984 nearly 80 percent of new bartending jobs were going to women.
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Other economic installations are being developed on this island, such as packinghouses and industries for processing citric fruits.
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Later, there were food riots and raids on delivery trucks and packinghouses, as well as the occupations of shuttered coalmines and bankrupt utility companies by the desperate who began to work them.
Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You Steve Fraser 2011
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Later, there were food riots and raids on delivery trucks and packinghouses, as well as the occupations of shuttered coalmines and bankrupt utility companies by the desperate who began to work them.
Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You Steve Fraser 2011
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These so-called “laser-coded information delivery systems with advanced security clearance” are cleaned, sorted, sized, graded and boxed in packinghouses.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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These so-called “laser-coded information delivery systems with advanced security clearance” are cleaned, sorted, sized, graded and boxed in packinghouses.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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These so-called “laser-coded information delivery systems with advanced security clearance” are cleaned, sorted, sized, graded and boxed in packinghouses.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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What was also different about the Chicago riots were the organized gangs of white hoodlums who entered the fray on the second day, streaming out of the neighborhoods surrounding the stockyards and packinghouses where white poverty was as raw and wicked as it was a few blocks away in the slums of the Black Belt.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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