gasworks

American  

[gas-wurks] / ˈgæsˌwɜrks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

gasworks plural

1. a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to homes and buildings.

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gasworks British  

/ ˈɡæsˌwɜːks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) a plant in which gas, esp coal gas, is made

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• gasworks
  plural

Etymology

Origin of gasworks

1810–20; gas + works (in the sense “manufacturing establishment”)

Example Sentences

Before the Dome was built, the peninsula was empty of buildings and covered with toxic soil from the gasworks that had closed back in 1976.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2020

Outside, the diesel trains coughed fumes too and, on leaving the station, gave you a view of the gasworks and canal.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2016

Until recently it was an unchic place, with overcrowded public housing “schemes,” manufacturing and gasworks — an area that no tourist would visit during my student days.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2016

Four years prior to that, another hidden passenger fell from the undercarriage of a plane on to a gasworks close to the store.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2012

Interspersed in these residential areas were a variety of businesses — paint factories, lumberyards, distilleries, gasworks, mills, furniture manufacturers, warehouses, and coal distributors.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy