engineering works

engineering works

English

Noun

engineering works (plural engineering works)

  1. A factory where engineering (including design and manufacture) is carried out.
    • 1960 January, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 56:
      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.
  2. Plural of engineering work.
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