Gasworks (Noun)

Meaning

The workplace where coal gas is manufactured.

Classification

Nouns denoting man-made objects.

Usages

• Plural Form

Examples

• The local gasworks had been the main employer in the town for over a century.
• As a young man, he worked at the gasworks, where he operated the retorts that produced the town's gas supply.
• She never forgot the smell of the gasworks where her father had worked for many years.
• The old gasworks building had been abandoned for decades, a relic of a bygone era.
• The gasworks was a hazardous place to work, with the constant risk of explosions and toxic fumes.

Hypernyms

• Work