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workshop definition

work·shop (-s̸häp′)

noun

  1. a room or building where work, as home repairs or light manufacturing, is done
  2. a seminar or series of meetings for intensive study, work, discussion, etc. in some field

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workshop Synonyms

workshop

n.

  1. A place where manual work is done

    plant, works, laboratory, foundry, studio, yards, establishment, mill.

  2. A meeting for study or discussion

    seminar, discussion group, study group, class.


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workshop Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • attend: Here is a full list of those who attended the workshop.

Adjective modifier

  • one-day: The one-day workshop will take place at London Metropolitan University's Graduate Center, 27th April 2005.

Modifies a noun

  • facilitator: This can be used to cover costs such as travel, publicity and workshop facilitators.

Noun used with modifier

  • half-day: In the case of medium risk projects a shorter half-day planning workshop is usually more appropriate.
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workshop quotes

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

-Chamberlain,Joseph

He must teach himself that the basest of all things isto be afraid and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop foranything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomedölove and honour and pityand compassion and sacrifice.

-Faulkner,William Harrison

   When we started the UN we were not trying to make a monument.We were building a workshopöa workshop for world peace. And we tried to make it the best damn workshop we could.

-Harrison,Wallace K(irkman)

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