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Table 4.4
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Pronunciation
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Subdomain (1st level): |
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Papermaking |
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Subdomain (2nd level): |
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Finishing operations |
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Grammatical category: |
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Complex term |
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Grammar notes: |
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Uncountable |
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Definition: |
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Operation in which the sheets are stacked on the pallet, tabbed at the required intervals (500 or 1000) to indicate quantity and over-wrapped with plastic-films based wrappers. |
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Definition source: |
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Brewer (2003) |
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Context: |
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Historically bulk packing would have been a manual operation and like its ream packing counterpart would have been labour intensive. A man can wrap approximately five pallets per available hour. Today a machine can wrap at ten times this rate. |
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Context source: |
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EN 44 |
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Attestation: |
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2 |
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Contained in: |
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Finishing operations |
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Related terms: |
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Cut-size sheeting |
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Notes: |
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The Italian and French languages do not have any equivalents. More precisely, these languages use a more general term - respectively imballaggio and emballage - in order to refer to the concept identified by “bulk packing”. |
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