machine shop

noun

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

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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 Creating a reliable, working firearm required years of technical study and access to complex machine shops. — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026 The site has space for a machine shop, storage, vehicles and office operations. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 10 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.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machine%20shop. Accessed 27 Jul. 2026.

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machine shop

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

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