packaging

English

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.
   • 2024 September 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Chemicals linked to breast cancer leach into our foods, study finds”, in CNN‎:

     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

• nanopackaging
• nonpackaging
• packaging gas
• postage and packaging
• salary packaging
• wackaging

Translations

the act of packing something — see also packing

Armenian: փաթեթավորում (hy) (pʻatʻetʻavorum) Chinese: Mandarin: 包裝 / 包装 (zh) (bāozhuāng) Finnish: paketointi (fi), pakkaaminen (fi) German: Packen (de) n Indonesian: pengemasan (id) Norwegian: innpakking m or f, pakketering m or f Romanian: împachetare (ro) f Russian: пакети́рование (ru) n (paketírovanije), упако́вка (ru) f (upakóvka) Spanish: envoltura (es) f, empaquetado (es) m, empaquetadura f

the materials used to pack something — see also wrapper

Albanian: ambalazh (sq) m Armenian: փաթեթավորում (hy) (pʻatʻetʻavorum) Catalan: embalatge (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 包裝 / 包装 (zh) (bāozhuāng) Dutch: verpakking (nl) f Finnish: pakkausmateriaali (fi) French: emballage (fr) m German: Verpackung (de) f Greek: αμπαλάρισμα (el) n (ampalárisma) Indonesian: kemasan (id) Italian: imballaggio (it) m Ligurian: imballàggiu Polish: opakowanie (pl) n Russian: упако́вка (ru) f (upakóvka) Spanish: empaque (es) m, convoluto m (rare) Swedish: förpackningsmaterial n or n pl, emballage (sv) n or n pl

the industry that produces such material

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: pakkausteollisuus German: Verpackungsindustrie (de) f Swedish: förpackningsindustri (sv) c

the manner in which a person or product is promoted

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: asu (fi), pakkaus (fi) German: Präsentation (de) f Spanish: envoltura (es) f

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

packaging m (plural packagings)

1. packaging (material)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English packaging.

Noun

packaging m (uncountable)

1. packaging