machine shop

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   workshop where metal is cut and shaped etc., by machine tools

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Questions about machine shop

What does machine shop mean?

machine shop means "workshop where metal is cut and shaped etc., by machine tools".

Is machine shop a common word?

machine shop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.