machine shop

noun

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

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Built in 1922, the 4,350-square-foot structure once housed a machine shop that manufactured crankshafts. Brendel Hightower, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025 Most of the ranch’s other buildings also date from the ’20s, when yet another owner—oil magnate H.G. Wylie, who had a hand in reassembling the ranch’s many parcels—built hay barns, dairy barns, garages, stables, a machine shop and a street of houses for the ranch’s workers. Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025 The pumphouse campus once had a machine shop, storehouse, carriage house and stables and a brick-making kiln. Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025 Dooley began working in the machine shop at Honeywell in Minneapolis while an engineering student at the University of Minnesota there. IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2021 See All Example Sentences for machine shop

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 25 Mar. 2025.

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machine shop

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

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