A New Zealand term for someone employed at a freezing works — the meat processing and slaughterhouse facilities where cattle and sheep are killed, processed, and frozen for export. Freezing workers were a significant part of the New Zealand labour movement and a culturally recognised occupational group in 20th century New Zealand.
Her grandfather had been a freezing worker in Whanganui for twenty years.
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(NZ) A person who works at a freezing works.
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