Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building devoted to the making of repairs, as in the rolling-stock of a railway.
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Examples
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This restarts what used to be a healthy and viable repair-shop industry in this country that got blown away in the last couple of decades.
Dennis Santiago: Economic Recovery Means Learning to Export Unemployment Dennis Santiago 2011
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Most of the script refers to this character only as “the Kid,” but then we see “an enigmatic R on his [repair-shop] uniform.”
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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This restarts what used to be a healthy and viable repair-shop industry in this country that got blown away in the last couple of decades.
Dennis Santiago: Economic Recovery Means Learning to Export Unemployment Dennis Santiago 2011
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Most of the script refers to this character only as “the Kid,” but then we see “an enigmatic R on his [repair-shop] uniform.”
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Timpson's, a British repair-shop chain, says repairs of shoes and watches have jumped in the last few months.
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"I think it makes you more passive as an individual," says Matthew Crawford, a former motorcycle repair-shop owner (and postdoctoral fellow in cultural studies) who's writing a book on the demise of mechanical aptitude in America.
Clive Thompson on How DIYers Just Might Revive American Innovation 2008
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Rashaun Gantt, 22, was the repair-shop manager and spent his days working on furniture in the shop behind the showroom.
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I saw the world with the strange manias of my new guests: medic, nutritionist, architectural renderer, biochip designer, engineering aeai controlling a host of repair-shop robots.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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A Hispanic man dressed in a repair-shop jumpsuit with the name GERALDO stitched on the breast pocket came in with several thick, spiral-bound notebooks.
Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005
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A Hispanic man dressed in a repair-shop jumpsuit with the name GERALDO stitched on the breast pocket came in with several thick, spiral-bound notebooks.
Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005
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