machine shop

noun

: a workshop in which work is machined to size and assembled

Examples of machine shop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Built for families to live together on dead end road Allen said the property has two wells, room for a machine shop, and a separate building that housed a diesel generator. USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024 For generations, the rivers were dumping grounds for machine shops, tanneries, gas plants and breweries. Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024 In what could only be described as a stroke of luck, Latimer was working as a draftsman at a machine shop in Bridgeport when Hiram Maxim, who would go onto invent the machine gun, came in one day. IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2023 Her father had a small machine shop on Long Island, and her mother was an offset printing supervisor. Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023 The brothers, speaking only basic English, worked first in the California orange groves, before banding together and using their background as mechanical engineers to establish a machine shop in Berkeley in 1915, working under the name Jacuzzi Brothers Incorporated. Saskia Solomon, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023 Hilcorp, Halliburton and Northern Solutions, a machine shop providing services to oil companies, are named in the investigation, according to online reports from the federal agency. Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023 His mother had to take over the family business, a machine shop that made gears. Oli Coleman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023 This session will allow attendees to meet program representatives and tour the machine shop. Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of machine shop was in 1827

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“Machine shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machine%20shop. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

machine shop

noun
: a workshop in which metal articles are machined and assembled

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