Words / B2

WURKS/wɜːks/

Works is a factory or industrial site, or an artist’s collected output: the steel works; the works of a poet. Factory is the everyday twin; workplace is any job site (already in the dictionary). The steel works closed after the outage. Mix-up: work is the uncountable job or effort; workshop is a training session. Do not write works for a single essay.

Meaning

A factory or industrial site; also an artist’s collected output (the works of…).

Examples

• “The steel works closed after the furnace outage, the business paper said.”
• “Cite the collected works, not a blog summary, which is the literature sense.”

Good to know

a gas / steel / water works; the works of + name. Everyday plant: factory. Uncountable job: work. Trap: workshop. Industry and literature. Plant or collected output.

Near in meaning

factory

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