Meatworks
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Meatworks is a noun meaning (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
Meaning
(Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
Example Sentences
In addition, a rigorous inspection of all meatworks, export or otherwise, continued to be enforced in all States.
A modern abattoir and meatworks, which will supply meat for local consumption and export, will be established at Kadina, in South Australia. The Premier (Mr. Playford) announced recently the project would cost about £500,000.
The effluents used for the irrigation schemes included discharges from most sections of the meatworks and from yards and roofs; in the Islington works some separate soakaways in the gravels were used for strong chemical discharges.
Isolation from the nearest meatworks at Wyndham and Broome was a major impediment to marketing beef. Blythe took up the idea of killing cattle at an abattoir on Glenroy and air-freighting the carcasses to a meatworks, thus eliminating the loss of condition inevitable in droving cattle long distances.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include meatpacking, meatpacker, meatwagon, butchery, beef-house, beefhouse.
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