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lifting shops

lifting shops is the plural of lifting shop.

Meaning of lifting shop

Noun

lifting shop (plural lifting shops)

  1. A workshop where vehicles are lifted off their bogies for maintenance work to be carried out.
    • The new depot, on which work started in May, 1956, has three reception roads leading to 13 sidings capable of taking 25 trains, a 450 ft.-long car examination shed with nine roads, a lifting shop with two roads and three permanent way sidings.1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, in Trains Illustrated, page 527

Questions about lifting shops

What is lifting shops the plural of?
Lifting shops is the plural of lifting shop.

Words near lifting shops in the dictionary

  1. lifting oneself up by one's bootstraps
  2. lifting oneself up by one's own boot-tags
  3. lifting oneself up by one's own bootstraps
  4. lifting oneself up by one's own waistbands
  5. lifting shop
  6. lifting shops
  7. lifting someone's spirits
  8. lifting span
  9. lifting spans
  10. lifting the bar
  11. lifting the exponent

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