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engineering works en · NOUN
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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 14, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 56:
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(form-of, plural) Plural of engineering work.
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