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# packer

«packer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or machine that packs goods into boxes or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a packer, packers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A packer is a person or machine that packs goods into boxes or containers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/packer/#m1)

2) (informal) In the phrase «Green Bay Packers» it is the name of an American football team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/packer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday adult life: warehouse jobs, food factories and removal companies; in maths problems about boxes and items packed.

### examples

- The packer filled each box with 12 eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/packer/#x1)
- My cousin works as a packer in a warehouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/packer/#x2)
- The machine is a fast packer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/packer/#x3)
- The packers loaded our furniture into the van. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/packer/#x4)
- A packer can pack 60 boxes an hour; in 3 hours that is 180. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/packer/#x5)
- Fruit packers work hard in the summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/packer/#x6)

### note

Plural: packers. From «pack» + «-er» (a person or thing that does). In maths, a packer's rate × time = how many items are packed.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «packer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/packer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.