Word Meanings - PACKAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Act or process of packing. 2. A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods. 3. A charge made for packing goods. 4. A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens,

Additional info about word: PACKAGE

1. Act or process of packing. 2. A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods. 3. A charge made for packing goods. 4. A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PACKAGE)

• Parcel
• Package
• bundle

Related words: (words related to PACKAGE)

• PARCEL-MELE
  By parcels or parts. Chaucer.
• PARCELING
  Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc. (more info) 1. The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.
• PACKAGE
  1. Act or process of packing. 2. A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods. 3. A charge made for packing goods. 4. A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens,
• PARCEL
  A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece. 3. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. Shak.
• BUNDLE
  A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes. The fable of the rods, which, when united
• PARCEL POST
  That branch of the post office having to do with the collection, transmission, and delivery of parcels. The British Inland Parcel Post was established in 1883. The present rates, dating from 1897, are 3d. for parcels not exceeding one pound and
• UNBUNDLE
  To release, as from a bundle; to disclose.