"pointwork" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From point + work.",
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          "text": "Before long, this box will be installed nearer Grosmont (NYM) level crossing to permit control of the crossing gates (presently hand-worked) and to replace the eight-lever ground frame which currently operates the pointwork.",
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        {
          "ref": "2020 March 25, William Barter, “HS2: Euston or Old Oak Common?”, in Rail, page 58:",
          "text": "And for maintenance of pointwork, a six-platform service can be operated whichever throat is under possession.",
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        "The engineering of sets of points on a railway, tramway, etc."
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        "(rail transport) The engineering of sets of points on a railway, tramway, etc."
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          "ref": "2007 December 13, Alastair Macaulay, “A Beloved Spanish Gypsy Returns to Frances Arms”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Though Mr. Lacotte makes certain nods to the early 19th-century ballet style of the first act of Giselle and August Bournonvilles ballets, he asks all his female dancers to do the sustained pointwork known to be late-19th-century in style.",
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        "(ballet) Alternative form of pointework"
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          "text": "And for maintenance of pointwork, a six-platform service can be operated whichever throat is under possession.",
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