(New Zealand) An industrial facility where animals are slaughtered and the carcases frozen for export.

Synonym of play the angles

Alternative form of workday

plural of work day

(dated, India) To go on strike. / (dated) To stop working (for a break, at the end of the work day, etc.). / (dated, figuratively, of things) To stop functioning.

Construction works, such as scaffolding, to facilitate the erection of the main work.

Alternative form of saltworks

(Christianity, chiefly in the plural) A person's beneficent action or deed, especially one of a charitable nature that advances one's progress toward salvation.

(idiomatic) investigative research

Alternative form of guesswork