works
/wɝks/ noun A2- A factory or factories, or a similar collection(s) of industrial facilities. · The steel works almost fills the valley.
Plural works
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Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched.
The assistant had left the front shop for an instant, when he heard a crash, and hurrying in he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments.
She works it from the front, so that her shadow may never be seen.
He knifed another Italian in the street, and then he came to the works with the police on his heels, and he was taken here.
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