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workpans

workpans is the plural of workpan.

Meaning of workpan

Noun

workpan (plural workpans)

  1. A pan that is part of a machine or system that holds the work that the machine or system operates on.
    • These racks can be carried about and used as workpans or, because of the brackets on their sides, can be stacked one in the other and so used as bins.1948, Transport Management: The British Journal of Trade and Transport, page 46

Questions about workpans

What is workpans the plural of?
Workpans is the plural of workpan.

Words near workpans in the dictionary

  1. workoutaholic
  2. workouts
  3. workover
  4. workovers
  5. workpan
  6. workpans
  7. workpants
  8. workpaper
  9. workpapers
  10. workpeople
  11. workperson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: workpans (page history and authors); workpan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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