machine shop
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3.7
- noun
- /məˈʃin ʃɑp/
- Specialized
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taller de mecanizado
- After graduating, he got a job in a local machine shop where he learned to work with various tools.
You know, my dad grew up at a time that his dad ran a small machine shop in New Orleans, got turned over to the war effort.
- You know, my dad grew up at a time that his dad ran a small machine shop in New Orleans, got turned over to the war effort.
- I would go spend my time in the machine shop on the milling machine cutting out the the the the parts and and so forth.
- Then went and worked at a machine shop doing CNC machining, making gun parts, all kinds of crazy shit like that.
- I used to work at a machine shop over there off of across the river over in, in not matter where the fuck was that shit over in Algiers.
Examples
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"We found him off-duty, working in the machine shop on some exotic piece of equipment."
Fiction book (2001) -
I work for a machine shop, but I took some advice that you gave when you had Dave Ramsey on.
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The father used to work in the machine shop until they fired him for drinking on the job.
Fiction book (1995) -
There must be a machine shop in town.
Fiction book (2002) -
It's actually a pretty good machine shop and electronics lab.
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I pass a small used-car lot, another boarded-up building, and several machine shops still in operation.
Academic text (2011) -
Swift Enterprises was a sprawling complex of laboratories, machine shops, and aircraft hangars spread across four square miles.
Fiction book (2001) -
Leon Wellwood owns a custom machine shop, Datum Machine Works, in Rockford, Ill.
Academic text (2000) -
At its start, the automobile business revolved around racer drivers, mechanics, and men who tinkered in machine shops.
Academic text (2005) -
Former CTI volunteer Mark Kooiker, a machine-shop operator, worked with a Zimbabwe foundry and machine shop and with fabricators to develop precise production techniques.
Academic text (2011)
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Morphology
The meaning 'a workshop for machining' is directly and compositionally derived from 'machine' (powered device for physical work) + 'shop' (workplace), so a learner who knows both words can infer a place where machines are used to make or repair items. This noun–noun compound pattern is a common, cross-linguistic way to form referential compounds, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Machine shop shows a simple picture: a 'shop' (a small workshop) full of machine tools that cut and shape metal and other materials. So machine shop means a place where people use machines to make or repair metal parts.