sugar factory

collocation in English

meaningsofsugarandfactory

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sugar
noun
uk
/ˈʃʊɡ.ər/us
/ˈʃʊɡ.ɚ/
a sweet substance especially from the plants sugar cane and sugar beet, used to make food and ...
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factory
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfæk.tər.i/us
/ˈfæk.tɚ.i/
a building or set of buildings where large amounts of goods are made ...
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(Definition ofsugarandfactoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This was because their primary activity was necessarily production for sale, not consumption, with the state-ownedsugarfactorybeing their sole market.
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Periodic release of waste products from thesugarfactoryinto nearby secondary canals temporarily eliminated snail populations, but only locally in sites remote from human contact.
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Everysugarfactoryhad to send their sugar to one seller in order that he might make the best bargain for it.
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The proposed solutions will work to the disadvantage of farmers andsugarfactoryworkers, and to the advantage of the large sugar companies.
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Two thousand acres were to be used for asugarfactory, but were not so used.
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Then, again, asugarfactoryis a help to another industry.
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In one of the reports is a proposal to have a new beetsugarfactory.
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Recently a strike occurred at asugarfactory, but it came to an end early and without disorder.
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Three thousand to four thousand acres of beet in one district are required for the economical working of asugarfactory.
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Thesugarfactorycan work only three months of the year.
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A scheme for a centralsugarfactoryhas been approved.
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There is the case of effluent from a beetsugarfactorywhich leaves the factory in a state which no one can descrbe as noxious.
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I see, stark and derelict, what was once the greatsugarfactorythere.
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The reply to such a statement is that thesugarfactorywill solve the problem.
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It strikes primarily at beet producers andsugarfactoryworkers.
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I have one beetsugarfactoryin my constituency.
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During the last week of the strike work in thesugarfactoryand on harvesting had to be stopped owing to congestion of storage space.
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