works

works
noun
1. buildings for carrying on industrial labor (Freq. 5)
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they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles

• Syn: ↑plant, ↑industrial plant
• Members of this Topic: ↑gas system
• Hypernyms: ↑building complex, ↑complex
• Hyponyms:
2. performance of moral or religious acts (Freq. 1)
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salvation by deeds

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the reward for good works

• Syn: ↑deeds
• Usage Domain: ↑plural, ↑plural form
• Hypernyms: ↑activity
3. everything available; usually preceded by `the' (Freq. 1)
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we saw the whole shebang

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a hotdog with the works

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we took on the whole caboodle

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for $10 you get the full treatment

• Syn:
• Hypernyms: ↑entirety, ↑entireness, ↑integrality, ↑totality
4. the internal mechanism of a device
• Syn: ↑workings
• Usage Domain: ↑plural, ↑plural form
• Hypernyms: ↑mechanism

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works [works] noun
» ↑work
 
Synonyms:
plant • mill • works • yard • workshop • foundry
These are all words for buildings or places where things are made or where industrial processes take place.
factory • a building or group of buildings where goods are made:

▪ a chocolate/cigarette/clothing factory

plant • a factory or place where power is produced or an industrial process takes place:

▪ a nuclear power plant

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▪ a manufacturing plant

mill • a factory that produces a particular type of material:

▪ a cotton/paper/textile/woollen mill

works • (often in compounds) a place where things are made or an industrial process takes place:

▪ a brickworks

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▪ a steelworks

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▪ Raw materials were carried to the works by barge.

yard • (usually in compounds) an area of land used for building sth:

▪ a shipyard

workshop • a room or building in which things are made or repaired using tools or machinery:

▪ a car repair workshop

foundry • a factory where metal or glass is melted and made into different shapes or objects:

▪ an iron foundry

a car/chemical/munitions factory/plant
an engineering plant/works
to manage/run a factory/plant/mill/works/yard/workshop/foundry
to work in/at a factory/plant/mill/yard/workshop/foundry
factory/mill/foundry owners/managers/workers
 
Example Bank:

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Raw materials were carried to the works by barge.

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upper ten, works
see upper a. 20, 21.

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