machine shop

noun

: a workshop in which work is machined to size and assembled

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Malcolm used to buy parts for his showerheads from a machine shop in nearby Merced, but that shop folded when most of its customers went overseas. Scott Horsley, NPR, 20 May 2025 Young mentioned that his grandfather, Frank Young, a prison employee who was in charge of the machine shop, helped produce the trap door for the original gallows. Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 17 May 2025 Cady is mechanically inclined but had a machine shop rebuild the engine. David Krumboltz, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2025 During the war, members of the institute and its machine shop had provided direct support for Konrad Zuse’s famed electromechanical Z4 computer. IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2021 See All Example Sentences for machine shop

Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of machine shop was in 1827

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“Machine shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machine%20shop. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.

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machine shop

noun
: a workshop in which metal articles are machined and assembled

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