machine shop

noun

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

Examples of machine shop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Examples of potential tenants include food processors, beverage distributors, freight logistics companies, machine shops, printing businesses, research labs, warehouse and storage facilities and manufacturing, packaging, fulfillment and processing facilities, among others. —Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026

Those companies each have their own suppliers with additional employees, even for as simple a step as getting unique parts from a small machine shop in Oldsmar. —Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2026

Not so long ago, San Francisco’s waterfront was lined with heavy industry: shipyards, floating dry docks to keep ships seaworthy, machine shops and jobs for thousands of blue-collar workers. —Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026

The Houston machine shop worker was life-flighted to a trauma center in Galveston County. —Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for machine shop

• atop
• backdrop
• backstop
• bebop
• blacktop
• bookshop
• clatsop
• desktop
• eavesdrop
• estop
• hardtop
• hilltop

Kids Definition

machine shop

noun

: a workshop in which metal articles are machined and assembled