refineryre‧fin‧e‧ry /rɪˈfaɪnəri/ noun (plural refineries) [countable] 
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word sets- an oil refinery
- Baldwin Inc. last month fired 200 workers at its Crockett, California, refinery, citing high raw cane sugar prices.
- I was the lowest paid person on the refinery.
- Lagoven said its heating oil is mostly derived from its refinery at Amuay in the western state of Falcon.
- Near Irvine and the port of Ardrossan, on the west coast, there is another large oil refinery.
- Pan music, the latent harmony in metal, resurrected from debris on the wharves and refineries of Trinidad by illiterate laborers.
- Quickly he generated an international order book, building refineries and tanks all over the world.
- The company also plans to invest in some of its remaining 11 refineries to make them more efficient.
- Two years before the refinery became operational, however, Montevideo severed all links with Moscow.
WORD SETS► Factories
Collocationsacceptance sampling, assembly line, nounautomated, adjectiveautomation, nounbonded factory, business park, nouncannery, nouncash conversion, nouncertificate of analysis, nounchaebol, nounCIM, CKD, coachbuilder, nouncompletely built-up, adjectivecompletely knocked-down, adjectivecutoff, noundistillery, noundown time, drawdown, nounend-product, nounengineering insurance, fabricator, nounfacility, nounfactory, nounfactory preset, nounfeedstock, nounfirst in, first out, nounfork-lift truck, nounfurnace, nounGantt chart, intermediate goods, investment goods, manufacturer, nounmanufacturing, nounmass-produced, adjectivemill, nounMRO, nounoutput, nounoutturn, nounplant, nounpottery, nounprocessing, nounproduction line, nounproject engineer, quality control, nounrefinery, nounresearch manager, retool, verbright first time, adjectiverisk analysis, nounsawmill, nounshed, nounshipyard, nounshop, nounshop floor, nounsingle sourcing, sourcing, nounsteelworks, nounstock control management, supply chain management, works, nounwork sampling, zero defects,
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► oil/petroleum/sugar refineryCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► an oil refinery
Word family (=a place where oil is treated by an industrial process)· an oil refinery in Perth
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► oil· The Amerada Hess Corporation oil refinery, with a capacity of 545,000 barrels per day, was also severely damaged.· The new facility abuts tract homes and a defunct oil refinery.· Some years before lie had resigned from the forces for their sakes and was personnel manager of an oil refinery in Perth.· Her father was an oil refinery worker until she was nine.· When oil was first imported this was the place chosen for an oil refinery.· The plant will produce electrical power from oil refinery residues.· Like many other West Lothian settlements, the village grew around a shale oil refinery.· Why do you think some people opposed the building of oil refineries near Milford Haven?
► sugar· Where are the main sugar refineries and why are they in these places?· I travelled five miles of busy docks on the Overhead Railway, passed flour mills and sugar refineries and massive bonded warehouses.
VERB► build· But Doumer built a refinery in Saigon, where a blend was concocted that burned quickly, and thus encouraged consumption.
► sell· S., Exxon, Mobil and Chevron, all have sold or closed refineries in the past couple of years.
WORD FAMILYnounrefinementrefineryadjectiverefined ≠ unrefinedverbrefine
a factory where something such as oil or sugar is made purer → refineoil/petroleum/sugar refinery