worksite

noun

work·​site ˈwərk-ˌsīt 

variants or work site

plural worksites or work sites

1

: a place where construction, demolition, renovation, or repair work is in progress

The course will make site workers aware of the differences between disaster sites and regular construction or demolition worksites …

—North Country Now (Potsdam, New York)

"We have started to install erosion controls at the worksite off of Oakdale Avenue and crews have completed the installation of one rock entrance to the worksite …," said Energy Transfer spokesperson Joe Massaro.

—Damon C. Williams

The new, permanent repairs will consist of removing the two existing bridge spans and installing two new ones. … Crews will also replace gravel and rails as well as perform some minor resurfacing at the work site.

—Christopher Cann

MHBA [=Manitoba Home Builder's Association] renovator members take worksite safety just as seriously.

—Lanny McInnes

2

: a place (such as an office or factory) where people work : workplace

The … survey covers 131,000 businesses and government agencies which make up 670,000 worksites …

—Nate DiCamillo

… large numbers of employees have only a virtual presence at their worksites.

—The Victoria (British Columbia) Times Colonist

Examples of worksite in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For example, precision questioning, abstraction, aggression, sexism and a disdain for altruism—serving the social good—are a few of the core values driving culture in computing worksites. —Coleen M. Carrigan, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2024

Riley Robinson/Staff Looking out over the worksite at the train station in Chicago’s Near North Side, Ms. Lujano sees both good and bad, both progress and the limitations of that progress. —Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2024

Another fire in Passaic County — the Cannonball 3 Fire near Pompton Lakes — broke out on the property of the old DuPont factory, a former chemical worksite, Friday afternoon. —Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 10 Nov. 2024

Not only that, Byrd was to drive to the company’s two other worksites twice a week, which would add about two hours of driving to her daily commute. —Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined at sense 1