Definition of "power-plant" [power-plant]

• An aggregation of boilers, gas-producers, and engines and their accessories for the generation of power; a station where power is generated by steam or other engines or by water-wheels. The power may be transformed into electrical energy in the same station. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Mr. Sprecher, the 56-year-old entrepreneur and onetime power-plant developer, is going back to his roots with the Brazil deal."
• "In the old times -- that's only ten years ago -- a federal minister of planning would sit in his office and single-handedly decide whether a road, port or power-plant would be built, as well as who would build it."
• "We have bottom-oriented thinking in mileage standards for cars, in acceptable levels of pollutants in power-plant emissions and other industrial operations and in permissible levels of chemicals in food and drugs."