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steelworks
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun steelworks has 1 sense
- steelworks(n = noun.artifact) steel factory, steel mill, steel plant - a factory where steel is made; Array has parts: bessemer converter, blast furnace, electric-arc furnace, stassano furnace
is a kind of factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill
has particulars: rolling mill
OXFORD DICTIONARY
steelworks, n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) a place where steel is manufactured.
Derivative
steelworker n.
THESAURUS
steelworks
blacksmith shop, bleachworks, bloomery, bottling works, brassworks, copperworks, dye works, forge, foundry, furnace, gasworks, glassworks, ironworks, metalworks, paper works, printworks, saltworks, scrapworks, smelter, smithery, smithy, soapworks, starchworks, steel mill, stithy, tileworks, tryworks, tubeworks, waterworks, wireworks, works
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