- (British English) a small container made of paper or card in which goods are packed for selling
- a packet of biscuits/cigarettes/crisps
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- empty
- cereal
- cigarette
- …
- open
- contain something
- soup
- on a/the packet
- packet of
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- a small object wrapped in paper or put into a thick envelope so that it can be sent by mail, carried easily or given as a present
- A packet of photographs arrived with the mail.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- empty
- cereal
- cigarette
- …
- open
- contain something
- soup
- on a/the packet
- packet of
- (North American English) (British English sachet)a closed plastic or paper package that contains a very small amount of liquid or a powder
- a packet of instant cocoa mix
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- empty
- cereal
- cigarette
- …
- open
- contain something
- soup
- on a/the packet
- packet of
- [singular] (British English, informal) a large amount of money
- That car must have cost a packet.
- (computing) a piece of information that forms part of a message sent through a computer network
- The data transmission is split into a number of packets of equal size.
- (North American English) a set of documents that are supplied together for a particular purpose
- a training packet
- My kids have summer math packets from their schools.
Word Originmid 16th cent.: diminutive of pack, perhaps from Anglo-Norman French; compare with Anglo-Latin paccettum.
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