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meatworks

meatworks noun: a slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.

meatworks: a slaughterhouse or meat processing plant
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Noun

meatworks (plural meatworks)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
    • A modern abattoir and meatworks, which will supply meat for local consumption and export, will be established at Kadina, in South Australia. The Premier (Mr. Playford) announced recently the project would cost about £500,000.1953, Modern Refrigeration, volume 56, page 176
    • The effluents used for the irrigation schemes included discharges from most sections of the meatworks and from yards and roofs; in the Islington works some separate soakaways in the gravels were used for strong chemical discharges.1970 August, N. Wells, J. S. Whitton, “The Influence of Meatworks Effluents on Soil and Plant Composition”, in G. J. Neale, editor, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 13, number 3...

Examples of meatworks in a sentence

  • In addition, a rigorous inspection of all meatworks, export or otherwise, continued to be enforced in all States.1983, Grolier Society of Australia, The Australian Encyclopaedia, volume 2, page 199:
  • Isolation from the nearest meatworks at Wyndham and Broome was a major impediment to marketing beef.2007, G. C. Bolton, “Blythe, Lindsay Gordon (1908-1986)”, in Diane Langmore, Darryl Bennet, editors, Australian Dictionary of Biography...

Forms of meatworks

pluralmeatworks

Origin of meatworks

From meat + works.

Questions about meatworks

What does meatworks mean?
Meatworks means a slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
How do you use meatworks in a sentence?
In addition, a rigorous inspection of all meatworks, export or otherwise, continued to be enforced in all States.
What part of speech is meatworks?
Meatworks is a noun.
What is the plural of meatworks?
The plural of meatworks is meatworks.

Words near meatworks in the dictionary

  1. meatwagon
  2. meatwagons
  3. meatware
  4. meatworker
  5. meatworkers
  6. meatworks
  7. meaty
  8. meatza
  9. meatzas
  10. meatzza
  11. meatzzas

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