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pakt-LUNCH/ˌpækt ˈlʌntʃ/

A packed lunch (id: packed-lunch) is food brought from home to eat at school or work, usually in a box or bag (UK). A school dinner is cooked on site; a takeaway is bought hot. Trips: a packed lunch is allowed; glass bottles are not.

Meaning

Food brought from home to eat at school or work, usually in a box or bag (UK).

Examples

• “A packed lunch is allowed on the trip; glass bottles are not.”
• “Free-school-meal pupils can still have a packed lunch if the kitchen issues one.”

Good to know

a packed lunch (UK). Contrast: a school dinner / a canteen meal. Trips / FSM. Countable lunches. Mix-up: packed as an adjective also means very full (already in the dictionary).

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