workplace, work

a place where work is done; "he arrived at work early today"

• bakery, bakeshop, bakehouse — a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold
• beehive — any workplace where people are very busy
• brokerage house, brokerage — place where a broker conducts his business
• central, telephone exchange, exchange — a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
• colliery, pit — a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
• creamery — a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold
• drill site — workplace that is the site of a drill hole
• exchange — a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
• farm — workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit
• fishery, piscary — a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold
• fish farm — a workplace (usually a pond) where fish are raised for food
• forge, smithy — a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
• gasworks — the workplace where coal gas is manufactured
• glassworks — a workplace where glass is made
• ironworks — the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made
• job — a workplace; as in the expression"on the job"
• lab, laboratory, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory — a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
• laundry — workplace where clothes are washed and ironed
• lumberyard — a workplace where lumber is stocked for sale
• oyster bed, oyster bank, oyster park — a workplace where oysters are bred and grown
• proving ground — a workplace for testing new equipment or ideas
• ropewalk, rope yard — workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made
• roundhouse — workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives
• shipyard — a workplace where ships are built or repaired
• shop floor — workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines
• studio — workplace for the teaching or practice of an art
• studio — workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded
• tannery — workplace where skins and hides are tanned
• test bed — a place equipped with instruments for testing engines and machinery under working conditions
• waterworks — workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community
• workshop, shop — small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

• geographic point, geographical point — a point on the surface of the Earth

• 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