industrial estate

noun

British

: an area outside of a town or city that is designed especially for factories or offices

Examples of industrial estate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Cutting Edge Stratosphere Drone Passes Key Test in U.S. By Ellie Cook Security & Defense Reporter 4 Sitting in a hangar in a quiet industrial estate in southeast England, a prototype unmanned aircraft is waiting to be shipped to a U.S. military site in New Mexico. —Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025

Decommissioned in 2012, Palmer bought the jet without engines or wings and towed it to his industrial estate in Bristol. —Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2025

The former Ferry Lane industrial estate, snaking alongside the peaceful Walthamstow Wetlands (themselves well worth a wander), has also had a major glow-up over the past few years. —Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Jan. 2024

Ajoba walked right out of the forest and traveled over farmland, through another wildlife preserve, across an industrial estate full of smoke-belching factories and a four-lane highway, and past a busy train station. —Vidya Athreya, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2023