Definition of headwork
: mental labor;
especially
: clever thinking
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The headworks project is scheduled to be completed by 2020.
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The report’s authors also were troubled by a 14-foot crack growing in a massive five-foot-thick concrete pier attached to the spillway’s headworks.
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The problem was first detected last year, when workers at the Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment Plant got high methane readings at the plant’s headworks.
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