steel plant
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- noun
- /stiːl plænt/
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- You build a steel plant with a capital cost that can reach several billion dollars.
So I started thinking that if I start building a steel plant, it would take years.
- So I started thinking that if I start building a steel plant, it would take years.
- Every of these big communes would all have little steel plants and they would build steel and the whole countryside would be transformed.
- Many of the steel plants at this time were overstaffed, pay was higher than average and British Steel was unprofitable.
- You see, instead of going to Wall Street, Barack went to work in neighborhoods that had been devastated by the closing of steel plants.
Examples
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OK, so suppose that there's a steel plant located on a river.
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Many of the steel plants at this time were overstaffed, pay was higher than average and British Steel was unprofitable.
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So I started thinking that if I start building a steel plant, it would take years.
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You build a steel plant with a capital cost of several billion dollars.
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In fact, in 1986, Japan secretly sold a $50 million steel plant.
Academic text (1991) -
What you are saying about the steel plant in St. Louis is true.
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When Tata announced last week that it planned to sell or close down this loss-making operation, government ministers knew it would mean the disappearance of thousands of jobs and catastrophe for a town like Port Talbot, in Wales, that depends almost entirely on its steel plant.
Academic text (2016) -
Dear Julia: Speaking of Affordable Care, we cannot afford our government-mandated health insurance anymore since Dad lost his job at the steel plant. We were hoping the XL pipeline would increase the demand for pipe and keep the plant in business, but Obama vetoed that for some reason.
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Our steel plant is one of the most modern facilities for producing steel in the world.
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Skills helped him get a job at a steel plant where they manufacture high-quality steel products.
Synonyms
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A factory that makes steel from raw materials
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A factory where workers make steel from iron and other materials
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A factory where steel is made and processed
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A factory or group of factories where people make steel
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Morphology
The meaning 'a factory where steel is produced' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'steel' (the material) with 'plant' (an industrial factory); the compound follows a straightforward noun+noun composition. This is a common, cross-linguistic construction and uses high-frequency, literal words, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The name steel plant joins steel, the metal, and plant, a word for a large 'factory' where machines are set up to make things. Picture heavy machines 'planted' in one spot to turn raw materials into steel, so steel plant means 'a factory where steel is made'.