(NZ, AU) An industrial facility where animals are slaughtered and the carcases frozen for export.
(NZ, AU) An industrial facility where animals are slaughtered and the carcases frozen for export.
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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.
(Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
(NZ) A person who works at a freezing works.
(US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
(US) that part of a slaughterhouse where the animals are killed and initial processing is carried out.