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Absolute Technologies, which originally began as a small machine shop in Santa Fe Springs making service repairs for Textron’s Bell Helicopters, makes landing gears, thrust reverser cylinders, flight control pistons, load transfer components and assemblies.
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Pat Maio, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
The Dodge brothers grew up helping their father build marine engines in his machine shop.
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Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2024
During the day, an endless procession of tractor-trailers and pickup trucks arrive and depart from the cluster of manufacturing companies and machine shops down the street.
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Sam Allard, Axios, 16 July 2024
The building is a former custom boot shop built in 1948 as a machine shop and later used as an awning company and as a Tejano club.
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Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1827, in the meaning defined above
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“Machine shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machine%20shop. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
machine shop
noun
: a workshop in which metal articles are machined and assembled
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