munitions factory
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmunitionsandfactory
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munitions
noun[plural]
uk/mjuːˈnɪʃ.ənz/us/mjuːˈnɪʃ.ənz/
military weapons such as guns ...
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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 ofmunitionsandfactoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Two are occupying new factories and eight existing premises including a surplusmunitionsfactory.
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The object of the raiders was apparently to seize arms at the airport andmunitionsfactory.
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That is quite true, and we can never bring about conditions in a mill or weaving shed similar to those in amunitionsfactory.
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Is it not a fact that there is a very great difference between working in a weaving shed and working in amunitionsfactory?
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People cannot now get money to build a new factory unless it is amunitionsfactory.
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The man's brother stays at home, goes into amunitionsfactoryand earns £6, £7 or £8 a week.
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But there are no employés taken into account in determining what may or may not happen to that man inside amunitionsfactory.
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The world is, indeed, a universalmunitionsfactory.
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I said that we had amunitionsfactory.
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The husbands may be stationed in parts of the country which are not near anymunitionsfactory.
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Moreover, we have had a greatmunitionsfactoryestablished, which is employing, at the present time, 1,300 men.
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If the widow is working in amunitionsfactory, for instance, along with a soldier's wife, her income is taxed to the full.
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I am informed that these two men were found within the boundaries of a nationalmunitionsfactorywithout the passes which are required for admission to such factories.
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In practically every case where it happened it will be found that there was a railway there, or cross roads, or docks or amunitionsfactoryor an aerodrome.
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She has gone into amunitionsfactory.
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If the air-raid post is to have a 24-hour day, so is themunitionsfactory, and the skilled worker will not have any spare time of his own.
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It is often said—correctly or apocryphally—that the current laws were designed to keepmunitionsfactory workers sober in wartime, and that they have remained in place ever since.
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An undergroundmunitionsfactoryhidden in the basement of a community center that had a working bakery and a laundry.
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A cigarette andmunitionsfactorywas set up in the village in the mid-19th century.
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He later worked in amunitionsfactoryand an aeroplane factory.
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