Meaning of meatworks | Babel Free

Definitions

A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.

Australia, New-Zealand

Examples

“A modern abattoir and meatworks, which will supply⟳ meat for local consumption and export, will be established at Kadina, in South Australia. The Premier (Mr. Playford) announced recently the project would cost⟳ about £500,000.”

“The effluents used for the irrigation schemes included discharges from most sections of the meatworks and from yards and roofs; in the Islington works some separate⟳ soakaways in the gravels were used for strong chemical discharges.”

“In addition, a rigorous inspection of all meatworks, export or otherwise, continued to be enforced in all States.”

“Isolation from the nearest meatworks at Wyndham and Broome was a major impediment to marketing beef. Blythe took up the idea of killing cattle at an abattoir on Glenroy and air-freighting the carcasses to a meatworks, thus eliminating the loss of condition inevitable in droving cattle long distances.”

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