packaging

Boxes, bags, or other materials that cover and protect goods.

• Remove the packaging before use.
• This packaging can be recycled.
• The company reduced its plastic packaging last year.

Similar words: wrapping, packing material

Common phrases: plastic packaging, protective packaging, recyclable packaging

Putting goods into boxes or other covers so they can be stored, sold, or sent.

• Packaging takes place at the factory.
• The packaging of fresh food requires careful handling.
• We automated packaging to speed up deliveries.

Similar words: packing

Opposites: unpacking

Common phrases: packaging process, packaging of goods, automated packaging

The business of making boxes, bags, and other materials for covering goods.

• She works in packaging.
• The packaging industry employs thousands of people.
• Investment in sustainable packaging has created new jobs.

Common phrases: packaging industry, packaging sector, career in packaging

The way someone or something is presented to make people interested in them.

• The singer owes much to clever packaging.
• The packaging of the candidate emphasized his youth.
• Fresh packaging helped the old brand reach younger buyers.

Similar words: presentation, promotion

Common phrases: clever packaging, political packaging, packaging of someone