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WORKPLACE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A place where work is done
Example:
he arrived at work early today
Synonyms:
work; workplace
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("workplace" is a kind of...):
geographic point; geographical point (a point on the surface of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "workplace"):
locker room (a room (as at an athletic facility or workplace) where you can change clothes and which contains lockers for the temporary storage of your clothing and personal possessions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "workplace"):
shop; workshop (small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done)
waterworks (workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community)
test bed (a place equipped with instruments for testing (e.g. engines or machinery or computer programs etc.) under working conditions)
tannery (workplace where skins and hides are tanned)
studio (workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded)
studio (workplace for the teaching or practice of an art)
shop floor (workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines)
shipyard (a workplace where ships are built or repaired)
roundhouse (workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives)
rope yard; ropewalk (workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made)
proving ground (a workplace for testing new equipment or ideas)
oyster bank; oyster bed; oyster park (a workplace where oysters are bred and grown)
lumberyard (a workplace where lumber is stocked for sale)
location (a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made)
laundry (workplace where clothes are washed and ironed)
lab; laboratory; research lab; research laboratory; science lab; science laboratory (a workplace for the conduct of scientific research)
job (a workplace; as in the expression 'on the job')
ironworks (the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made)
glassworks (a workplace where glass is made)
gasworks (the workplace where coal gas is manufactured)
forge; smithy (a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering)
fish farm (a workplace (usually a pond) where fish are raised for food)
fishery; piscary (a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold)
farm (workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit)
exchange (a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members)
drill site (workplace that is the site of a drill hole)
creamery (a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold)
colliery; pit (a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it)
central; exchange; telephone exchange (a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication)
brokerage; brokerage house (place where a broker conducts his business)
beehive (any workplace where people are very busy)
bakehouse; bakery; bakeshop (a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold)
