WORKPLACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does workplace mean? 

• WORKPLACE (noun)
  The noun WORKPLACE has 1 sense:

1. a place where work is done

  Familiarity information: WORKPLACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKPLACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place where work is done

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

work; workplace

Context example:

he arrived at work early today

Hypernyms ("workplace" is a kind of...):

geographic point; geographical point (a point on the surface of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "workplace"):

locker room (a room (as at an athletic facility or workplace) where you can change clothes and which contains lockers for the temporary storage of your clothing and personal possessions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "workplace"):

lab; laboratory; research lab; research laboratory; science lab; science laboratory (a workplace for the conduct of scientific research)

shop; workshop (small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done)

waterworks (workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community)

test bed (a place equipped with instruments for testing (e.g. engines or machinery or computer programs etc.) under working conditions)

tannery (workplace where skins and hides are tanned)

studio (workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded)

studio (workplace for the teaching or practice of an art)

shop floor (workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines)

shipyard (a workplace where ships are built or repaired)

roundhouse (workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives)

rope yard; ropewalk (workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made)

proving ground (a workplace for testing new equipment or ideas)

oyster bank; oyster bed; oyster park (a workplace where oysters are bred and grown)

lumberyard (a workplace where lumber is stocked for sale)

location (a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made)

laundry (workplace where clothes are washed and ironed)

bakehouse; bakery; bakeshop (a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold)

job (a workplace; as in the expression 'on the job')

ironworks (the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made)

glassworks (a workplace where glass is made)

gasworks (the workplace where coal gas is manufactured)

forge; smithy (a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering)

fish farm (a workplace (usually a pond) where fish are raised for food)

fishery; piscary (a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold)

farm (workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit)

exchange (a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members)

drill site (workplace that is the site of a drill hole)

creamery (a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold)

colliery; pit (a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it)

central; exchange; telephone exchange (a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication)

brokerage; brokerage house (place where a broker conducts his business)

beehive (any workplace where people are very busy)

 Context examples 

Rarely have you seen your workplace so busy.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You are at greater risk if you are: • Male and over 40 years old • Exposed to certain workplace chemicals • Infected with HPV • A smoker

(Nasal Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Epidemiology studies to identify and evaluate environmental and workplace exposures that may be associated with disease risk.

(Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, NCI Thesaurus)

A setting outside the clinic or a comparable health care facility, e.g. a doctor's office, the subject's home or workplace, a school, a public park, or a restaurant.

(In the Field, NCI Thesaurus)

Risk factors for developing bladder cancer include smoking and exposure to certain chemicals in the workplace.

(Bladder Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

He added: 'And as we did not include indoor air pollution and workplace exposure in our analysis, the real effect may be even greater.'

(Air Pollution Can Trigger Glaucoma, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Contact dermatitis associated with allergens or irritants found in the workplace.

(Occupational Dermatitis, NCI Thesaurus)

This branch of medicine is concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of injuries and illnesses that occur at the workplace or as a result of toxic exposures, stress, or accidents at the workplace.

(Occupational Medicine, NCI Thesaurus)

The new moon of last month, October 27, was wild and wooly and may have introduced chaos in the workplace.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)