machine shop

noun

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

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Ternus, the colleague recalled, would spend about an hour in the morning reimagining a product with computer software, then walk into the in-house machine shop and fabricate the part himself on a mill or lathe. — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026 The facility houses machine shops, fabrication shops, a sewing team, a paint shop, and all kinds of skilled professionals who keep Disneyland beautiful and running efficiently. — Carole Horst, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026 Julius was a co-owner of a struggling machine shop on the Lower East Side. — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026 The tug depended on coal mines and iron foundries that supplied machine shops in the Midlands. — Guru Madhavan, IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for machine shop

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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

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

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