industrial estate

noun

British.

1. industrial park.

industrial estate

noun

1. US equivalent: industrial park. another name for trading estate

Word History and Origins

Origin of industrial estate¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

These businesses are among those that make up a small retail and industrial estate in the city of Woburn, Massachusetts.

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The arrest follows activity at an industrial estate in the town, where NCA officers said they saw migrants near two men and a number of HGVs.

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She said it was found propping open a door in a Highland Council unit on an industrial estate in Balintore, about 14 miles from Invergordon.

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Invergordon Town Council bought the sculpture for £5 in 1930, but it was later placed in storage at an industrial estate and its value was not widely appreciated until recent years.

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At an anonymous industrial estate on the outskirts of London, a queue of police vans and empty lorries block the usual flow of lunchtime traffic.

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