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  • noun A manufacturing plant large enough to produce market development quantities, but smaller than a full scale commercial plant.

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Examples

  • "That would be a semi-works effort with the same diesel engine and it's going to be the same (as 2009) again."

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Sven Quandt's semi-works BMW X-Raid had committed a massive effort to challenge for victory, and the team's BMW X3 CC proved to be a fast competitor if not as robust as the Race Touareg.

    Motorsport.com: news 2010

  • - (Business Wire) FRX Polymers, Inc. (FRX), the manufacturer of an entirely new family of inherently flame retardant polymers and oligomers, has recently expanded its staff to include a Vice President of Manufacturing and Process Technology - to lead the operation of a new monomer pilot plant in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, the development of a large scale monomer facility in Asia and the construction, start-up and operation of a semi-works polymer plant in Domat/EMS, Switzerland.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • FRX will be starting up a semi-works polymer plant later this year in Domat/EMS Switzerland.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Sven Quandt's semi-works BMW X-Raid had committed a massive effort to challenge for victory, and the team's BMW X3 CC proved to be a fast competitor if not as robust as the Race Touareg.

    Motorsport.com: news 2010

  • FRX will also be starting up a semi-works polymer plant later this year in Domat/Ems Switzerland.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • ZeaChem Inc. has begun construction of its semi-works scale facility.

    Recently approved feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

  • The British company was the first to unveil its new electric hybrid system, inking a partnership with Utah-based Corsa Motorsports as its semi-works team for the 2009 ALMS season.

    Motorsport.com: CHAMPCAR news 2009

  • Ok, it semi-works to say that a governor of, say, Texas or California has some international relations experience because of the very real relations that the governments of those states have with the governments of those countries.

    PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts 2008

  • It semi-works in Europe; people will pay lip service to racial equality, but in practice don’t lift a finger, and in fact detest other Europeans, never mind other people of other races.

    Obama and Karzai: a foreign policy of schoolyard taunts 2010

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