sugar refinery
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈʃʊɡər rɪˈfaɪnəri/
:
refinería de azúcar
- To see how this works in practice, I've come to the Tate and Lyle sugar refinery in London.
Examples
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And in Barbados, the red enamel wheels in a few yards originated in the sugar refineries.
Academic text (1993) -
So if you can't accept it as salt, maybe you should go looking for a sugar refinery.
Blog text (27) -
It's my dad's old sugar refinery.
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REMEMBER THAT SUGAR REFINERY WE PASSED ON OUR WAY HERE?
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"DON'T LET THEM TAKE YOU TO THE SUGAR REFINERY."
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THE SUGAR REFINERY.
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And this is an image of a man who was burned in the sugar refinery fire worker and and Dwight York's New Albion compound in Putnam County, Georgia.
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Growing cane was more popular in Palomas because of the flatter terrain and because the village is only a few miles from the canton’s only sugar refinery.
Academic text (1997) -
The sugar produced at the sugar refinery is used to sweeten many products in supermarkets.
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After the raw sugar arrives, it is processed at the sugar refinery to make it suitable for consumption.
Synonyms
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4.6
A factory where raw oil or sugar is cleaned and made ready to use
A building where people make sugar from sugarcane or sugar beets
How Big
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3.7
- US
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'sugar' (the substance) with 'refinery' (a facility for refining), so its meaning as a factory that processes and purifies sugar is directly and transparently derivable from the parts. This noun–noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Sugar refinery comes from factories where raw sugar juice from the cane is cleaned and cooked until it becomes white and pure. A refinery is a place that removes dirt and extra colour, so the term means 'a factory that processes and purifies sugar'.