workroom
Americannoun
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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Origin of workroom
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A decade later, in 1998, Whitten and Sykes — who at the time was interning for him — were in his home workroom when the phone rang.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
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.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2024
Eve was an apprentice at fashion designer Sir Norman Hartnell's workroom in Mayfair.
From BBC ● May 4, 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
Back in the workroom, she found that they had flattened her paper bag and set out the two bologna sandwiches mama had fixed for her.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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
No workrooms at her publisher’s office were set up for keyboards; it was suggested that she learn to strum an acoustic, “like everyone else.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
More experienced students knew shortcuts, of course: which workrooms and lecture halls to cut through to reach your destination.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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