packaged

1. 1
   adjective

   Having been placed inside a package or wrapping, typically for sale, storage, or shipping.

   Customers increasingly avoid packaged meals in favor of fresh ingredients.

   The warehouse stores packaged goods until trucks arrive to collect them.

   Similarwrapped, boxed

   Oppositeunpackaged, loose

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of package.

   The factory packaged thousands of units last week.

   Workers packaged the fragile vases in layers of foam.

   Note

   The spelling does double duty, as with any regular verb: it is the past tense (they packaged the order) and the participle after have or be (it had been packaged). Beyond boxing things up, it carries the verb's trade meanings, as in a series packaged for broadcasters or a book packaged for a publisher, and even the holiday sense of traveling on a package tour. Placed before a noun, it becomes the plain adjective.

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