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refineries

refineries is the plural of refinery.

Meaning of refinery

Noun

refinery (plural refineries)

  1. A building, or a mass of machinery, used to produce refined products such as sugar, oil, or metals.
    • An oil field was discovered at Karamai in 1955, the first of a number to be found in Dzungaria. This oil find has greatly helped China’s industrial development, and the oil fields are now linked to Lanchow by pipeline and by rail. Large refineries have been built at Lanchow and at Tushantzu in...1971, Robert Clayton, “Sinkiang”, in China (Finding Out About GEOGRAPHY), New York: John Day Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12, column 1

Phrases with refineries

Questions about refineries

What is refineries the plural of?
Refineries is the plural of refinery.

Words near refineries in the dictionary

  1. refinements
  2. refiner
  3. refiner's sirup
  4. refiner's sirups
  5. refiner's syrup
  6. refineries
  7. refiners
  8. refiners' sirup
  9. refiners' sirups
  10. refiners' syrup
  11. refiners' syrups

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