treated as singular A place where animals are slaughtered and carcasses frozen, usually for export.
Example sentencesExamples
- I was stared at by people wearing their work clothes straight from the freezing works.
- The highway at Mataura was dominated on one side by the freezing works, which seemed to go on forever.
- After his time in Japan he worked briefly at the Waingawa freezing works, but then began his lifetime work as a builder.
- The buildings at Totara which were the first freezing works in New Zealand are preserved as historic buildings and are close to the main south road south of Oamaru.
- The banks needed to reduce the number of freezing works operating in New Zealand, and they deliberately chose one company to turn over.