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A promise wrapped in cardboard, tracked obsessively, opened once, remembered rarely.
means A bundled thing wrapped or boxed together for carrying, shipping, or selling as one unit.
from Built from 'pack' — a bundle tied up for carrying, itself likely related to Germanic and Dutch words for bundling goods — plus the French-flavored suffix '-age,' which turns an action or collection into a noun (think 'baggage,' 'voyage'). So 'package' literally means 'the state or result of being packed': a pack formalized into its own tidy noun.
- software sense
- Programmers borrowed the word for bundled code in the 1960s
- deal sense
- Package deal dates to 1930s American ad lingo
- etymology cousin
- Related to pact and compact, all from Latin pactum
- size surprise
- US Postal Service once limited packages to 70 pounds