workroom

[wurk-room, -room]

noun

1. a room in which work is carried on.

workroom

/ -ˌrʊm, ˈwɜːkˌruːm /

noun

1. a room in which work, usually manual labour, is done

2. a room in a house set aside for a hobby, such as sewing

Word History and Origins

Origin of workroom¹

First recorded in 1820–30; work + room

Example Sentences

The main Masters.com workroom looks like a modern newsroom, with about 200 new-age storytellers generating all types of content during the week of the tournament.

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"They often lived and worked in these spaces but it would be a workroom, really, by day and they would weave as long as the light would allow them to do so."

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The hidden pathways and workrooms would often be filthy with human excrement, drug paraphernalia and other debris.

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Public meetings grew tense, and according to one account from the time, a school superintendent barged into the English department’s workroom and scolded the teachers for championing “depressing” books.

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Since Isaac often went with Jefferson when he hunted squirrels and partridge, or visited him in Monticello’s library and workrooms, he saw glimpses of Jefferson as the gentleman farmer and tinkerer.

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