MEANING
An industrial plant that processes a raw material into a more useful or purified form.
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- oil refinery
- sugar refinery
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An oil refinery dominated the horizon.
The town grew beside a sugar refinery.
The refinery operated beyond the rail yard.
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- refinery
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular refinery; plural refineries. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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