Definition of "package" []

• A wrapped or boxed object; a parcel. (noun)
• A container in which something is packed for storage or transportion. (noun)
• A preassembled unit. (noun)
• A commodity, such as food, uniformly processed and containerized. (noun)
• A proposition or an offer composed of several items, each of which must be accepted. (noun)

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• "A package with goods inside declared at $51 USD - it's a parcel from the USA - add on customs charges and handling handling being the large part and that's an extra *half the cost of the orginal package*."
• "On TARGET system: for package in ` cat packages-on-DVD ` do QUERY = ` echo $package | cut - d ":" - f 2 `"
• "Our earliest evidence for the phrase package store, I am informed by Joanne Despres at Merriam-Webster, “is an entry in the 1918 Addenda to the New International Dictionary originally published in 1909, where it is labeled ‘cant, U.S.’”"