steel mill
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3.3
- noun
- /stiːl mɪl/
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siderúrgica
- Company B purchases the steel mill for one million dollars.
- work in steel mill
- industries such as steel mills
- steel mills and coal
They're working in the textile mills and the steel mills in New England.
- They're working in the textile mills and the steel mills in New England.
- So there's a good chance that left alone, the steel mills would just shut down.
- He tried to assassinate Frick, who was Andrew Carnegie's main man in the Pittsburgh steel mill strike.
- We were riding in the convoy to the stadium and on the left all you saw was disused, empty, shattered steel mills.
- Rusted out steel mills, closing churches, the old clubs, the VFW's, the Rotary, the bowling leagues, they're all dying.
- It can be used in a steel mill and a power plant because we've made it hot, but we've taken the gases out, right?
- Installing a large Bank of these superchargers at one location creates a grid power demand comparable to a small town or a steel mill.
- A trade barrier that protects a Jones job in the steel mill destroys Smith's job in the tire factory or the pharmaceutical lab.
- There were these photographers, men like Louis Hine, Walker Evans, W Eugene Smith and Lee Friedlander, who had made work about the steel mills.
Examples
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Alabama, for example, had a complex of steel mills.
Academic text (1997) -
Oh, when I was in college, I was working part-time during the summer at a steel mill.
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- Has he taken you to the steel mill yet?
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My mother worked at a factory, and my father worked at a steel mill.
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We were driving by his office at the steel mill, a different kind of fire and smoke shooting from the stacks.
Fiction book (1993) -
At every step, the steel mill can be regulated, taxed, and controlled by the government.
Academic text (1991) -
We should have lost hope when the steel mill closed down, but that was the year our beloved Chiefs won the Federal Cup, led by the infamous Hanson Brothers.
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A trade barrier that protects a Jones job in the steel mill destroys Smith's job in the tire factory or the pharmaceutical lab.
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The convergence of railroads and waterways resulted in steel mills popping up along the southern tip of Lake Michigan.
Academic text (2011) -
My father worked at a steel mill where they manufactured various metal products.
Synonyms
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2.3
A building where things are made or raw materials are processed
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3.7
A factory where steel is made from iron and other materials
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2.9
A factory where workers make steel from iron and other materials
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3.4
A factory where steel is made and processed
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3.9
A factory or group of factories where people make steel
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4.2
A factory where people make things from metal like tools or machine parts
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Morphology
The meaning 'a factory where steel is manufactured' is directly compositional from 'steel' (the metal) + 'mill' (a facility for processing materials); the noun-noun compound denotes a mill for steel. This compounding pattern is regular in English and common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Steel mill is a simple picture: a mill is a place with big machines and steel is the metal they make. So, a steel mill is 'a factory where steel is made'.