INDUSTRIAL PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does industrial plant mean? 

• INDUSTRIAL PLANT (noun)
  The noun INDUSTRIAL PLANT has 1 sense:

1. buildings for carrying on industrial labor

  Familiarity information: INDUSTRIAL PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDUSTRIAL PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Buildings for carrying on industrial labor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

industrial plant; plant; works

Context example:

they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles

Hypernyms ("industrial plant" is a kind of...):

building complex; complex (a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures)

Domain member category:

gas system (facility (plant and equipment) for providing natural-gas service)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "industrial plant"):

bottling plant (a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps)

brewery (a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation)

distillery; still (a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation)

factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill (a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing)

mint (a plant where money is coined by authority of the government)

packing plant; packinghouse (a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products)

recycling plant (a plant for reprocessing used or abandoned materials)

refinery (an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance)

saltworks (a plant where salt is produced commercially)

disposal plant; sewage disposal plant (a plant for disposing of sewage)

smelter; smeltery (an industrial plant for smelting)

wine maker; winery (an establishment where wine is made)