"meatworks" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From meat + works.",
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          "ref": "1953, Modern Refrigeration, volume 56, page 176:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "1970 August, N. Wellls, J. S.. Whitton, The Influence of Meatworks Effluents on Soil and Plant Composition, G. J. Neale (editor), New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume 13, Number 3, page 499,\nThe 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."
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          "ref": "1983, Grolier Society of Australia, The Australian Encyclopaedia, volume 2, page 199:",
          "text": "In addition, a rigorous inspection of all meatworks, export or otherwise, continued to be enforced in all States.",
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          "ref": "2007, G. C. Bolton, “Blythe, Lindsay Gordon (1908-1986)”, in Diane Langmore, Darryl Bennet, editors, Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 17 1981-1990: A-K, page 116:",
          "text": "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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        "A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant."
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          "processing",
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        "(Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant."
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