Definition of "refineries" []

• Plural form of refinery. (noun)

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• "While the oil tanker drivers were working, the main refineries were also targeted and the tanker drivers let the strikers know where they were going, allowing for flying pickets to turn them back at their destination."
• "I think the whole reason the oil companies want new refineries is because fixing older units would take their money while they will probably get handouts and subsidies to open new ones."
• "Andrews had been a day laborer in refineries, and so poor that his wife took in sewing."