Definition of "shrink-wrapping" []

• Present participle of shrink-wrap. (verb)

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• "Last year when Mount Redoubt erupted again in Alaska, the airline couldn't get its aircraft out of Anchorage early enough and ended up canceling flights and shrink-wrapping planes to keep ash from contaminating instruments and engines."
• "I took the liberty of slitting the shrink-wrapping and sampled the notebooks."
• "Pepsi said it is also shrink-wrapping its 24-pack of half-liter Aquafina bottles in pallets with no cardboard base pad, cutting 20 million pounds of corrugated cardboard by next year."