engineering works

noun

A factory where engineering (including design and manufacture) is carried out.

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Meanings

nounengineering works (plural engineering works)
  1. A factory where engineering (including design and manufacture) is carried out.

    The Duke intended to make Brora the nerve centre of the railway, and built a large engineering works near the station in which he planned to manufacture everything from nuts and bolts to locomotives.

    1960 January 29, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 56
  2. pluralPlural of engineering work.
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