bottling plant
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- noun
- /ˈbɑːtəlɪŋ plænt/
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planta de embotellado
- My cousin works for a bottling plant in North Carolina, and he delivers Cheerwine to the area stores, markets, and gas stations.
- Cola bottling plant
- Coca-Cola bottling plant
- water bottling plant
Examples
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You really want to make me the boss of the bottling plant?
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I suppose you two met in the bottling plant.
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Folks who work at the bottling plant were laid off until further notice.
Fiction book (1999) -
As a matter of fact, he's head of our bottling plant.
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Salisbury was the only bottling plant when we were kids.
Blog text (1) -
Scipione is the chief bookkeeper of the Montefalcone bottling plant.
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Lewis turned and looked behind him, across Bissonnet Street, to the Coca-Cola bottling plant, a pristine modern building with the red neon logo as its only decoration.
Fiction book (1990) -
The new bottling plant produces thousands of bottles of juice each day.
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After the renovation, the bottling plant has modernized its production line.
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She works at a bottling plant, where they fill and seal various beverages.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'bottling' (the action of putting liquid into bottles) plus 'plant' (a factory) yields a factory where bottling occurs. This gerund+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern that a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer.
Etymology
The noun bottling plant comes from the simple picture of a place where workers fill and seal bottles on a fast moving line. The word bottling means 'putting drinks into bottles' and plant means 'factory', so the phrase means 'a factory where drinks are put into bottles and sealed for sale'.