Waterworks
['wɔːtəwɜːks] or ['wɔtɚwɝks]
Definition
(noun.) workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community.
Editor: Spence--From WordNet
Examples
- Mr. Walker was an observant man, who has since that time installed a number of waterworks systems and obtained several patents of his own. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the gravity system, where an elevated lake or stream serves as a natural reservoir, the cost of the city's waterworks is practically limited to the laying of pipes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- She shook her head sadly and had, as usual, recourse to the waterworks. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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