sewage works
- noun
- /ˈsuːɪdʒ wɜrks/
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planta de tratamiento de aguas residuales
- Officials announced a new initiative to improve the efficiency of the region's sewage works and reduce pollution.
Examples
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It governs such matters as the construction of sewage works and the establishment of air emission regulations.
Academic text (1992) -
They took their cavity ring-down spectrometer to other obvious sources of methane, including a sewage works, drove alongside fields of high-density cattle, and visited wetlands.
Blog text (17) -
Show them around a sewage works and they'll go into polite ecstasies.
Fiction book (1990) -
His camera, the only clue to his disappearance, was fished out of a filtration tank at the city sewage works late last night.
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The city invested in upgrading the local sewage works to ensure cleaner water is released into the river.
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After heavy rainfall, the sewage works struggled to process the increased volume of wastewater effectively.
Synonyms
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A place where dirty water and other waste are cleaned and made safe
A place where dirty water from homes and businesses is cleaned and made safe
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Morphology
The meaning 'a place or system where sewage is treated' is directly derivable from combining 'sewage' (liquid waste) with 'works' (an industrial site or facility). The construction 'X works' meaning 'a facility for X' is a productive English pattern (e.g. 'waterworks', 'gasworks') and is conceptually transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words should infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Sewage works is named like old factories where works meant a place that did a specific job and sewage is the dirty water from homes. So the name simply tells us it is a place 'to treat' or 'clean' that waste.