packaging

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpæ.kə.dʒɪŋ/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Verb

packaging

  1. present participle and gerund of package

Noun

packaging (usually uncountable, plural packagings)

  1. The act of packing something.
  2. The materials used to pack something.
    • 2020 December 31, Shwanika Narayan, “E-commerce ruled the holidays. So why aren't Bay Area recycling centers choking on cardboard?”, in San Francisco Chronicle‎[1], archived from the original on 31 December 2020:
      The packaging remains of the busy holiday season are destined for recycling plants across the Bay Area.
    • 2024 September 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Chemicals linked to breast cancer leach into our foods, study finds”, in CNN‎[2], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 15 April 2025:
      Nearly 200 chemicals connected to breast cancer are used in the making of food packaging and plastic tableware, and dozens of those carcinogens can migrate into the human body, a new study found.
  3. The industry that produces such material.
  4. (by extension) The manner in which a person or product is promoted.
    • 1982 December 18, Rob Schmieder, “A Welcome Anomaly”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 10:
      Do Amaral seems to belong more to a Europian [sic] tradition than to any of the artistic pigeonholes currently in vogue in the States. His failure to show allegiance to any one medium makes him resistant to the relentless packaging that is a feature even of much avant garde American art.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Pronunciation

Noun

packaging m (plural packagings)

  1. packaging (material)

Spanish

Etymology

    Borrowed from English packaging.

    Noun

    packaging m (uncountable)

    1. packaging
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