workroom
Americannoun
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workrooms
plural
noun
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a room in which work, usually manual labour, is done
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a room in a house set aside for a hobby, such as sewing
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Etymology
Origin of workroom
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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."
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2025
Secretively working in an empty electrical workroom in her housing complex, Vicaria steals away in the night, literally and figuratively, to work on her project of reanimation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
The tinkering in Graf’s workroom is another example of how Ukraine’s military has adapted as the war progresses, creating advantages in the face of the Russian Army’s superiority in troop numbers and long-range weaponry.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2023
Seven senior staff arrived at the little workroom at 7 a.m. and went over patients' brain imaging with the residents.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2022
At the workroom tempers were short because of the heat.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
Pupils in some affected schools have been unable to access design-and-technology workrooms, laboratories and other specialist spaces.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2024
The workrooms contained metal lathes, hand tools and grey casings, but it was not possible to verify what had been made there.
From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2023
In the cavernous hallways between Kansas City’s secured warhead workrooms are green and white nursing pods with a greeting: “Welcome mothers.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
With Broadway shows, touring companies and hundreds of other productions on hold, the designers had the rare luxury of having the undivided attention of stalled theatrical workrooms throughout 2020 and 2021 shutdowns.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022
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.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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