sugar refinery

collocation in English

meaningsofsugarandrefinery

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sugar
noun
uk
/ˈʃʊɡ.ər/us
/ˈʃʊɡ.ɚ/
a sweet substance especially from the plants sugar cane and sugar beet, used to make food and ...
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refinery
noun[C]
uk
/rɪˈfaɪ.nər.i/us
/rɪˈfaɪ.nɚ.i/
a factory where substances in their natural state, such as oil or sugar, are ...
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(Definition ofsugarandrefineryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsugar refinery

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Men were also hired to build asugarrefineryand access road, then gaining work as refinery operatives and small cane farmers.
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Thesugarrefinerydraws water from the western main canal, the outfall of which is used for rice irrigation beyond the sugar scheme boundary.
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The largestsugarrefineryin the country is situated in my constituency.
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There is a canesugarrefineryin my constituency that would be able very effectively to package and distribute sugar in 1 kg bags.
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I declare an interest, having the largestsugarrefineryin the world in my constituency.
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I am told that such an amount is more than the whole cost of running a modernsugarrefineryin this country.
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Shipbuilding and marine engineering have declined and only onesugarrefineryremains.
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Asugarrefineryin my constituency still flourishes, despite the prognostications of the anti-marketeers.
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I cannot recall any of my colleagues supporting constraints in order to ease the problem for the canesugarrefinery.
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There was asugarrefineryinside in the 19th and beginning of the 20th century and the castle was finally demolished after 1945.
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The current complex dates from 1882, when it was the largestsugarrefineryin the world.
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In 1794, he gave up thesugarrefinery.
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Moerbeke was known very well for itssugarrefinery.
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In the 1900s the first modern industries were established, the most important of these was asugarrefinery.
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He was credited with attracting asugarrefinery, a fig processing plant, a gasoline cracking plant and a grain elevator.
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The main residues out ofsugarrefineryare molasses and bagasse.
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Another lifestyle promoted by the missionaries was manufacturing, the missionaries setting up asugarrefineryand a textile factory.
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He had two sisters and two brothers, one of whom worked for asugarrefinery, and one who became a police officer.
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