Noun

The action of the verb to process .

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The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.

Noun

(-)

(Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.

* 1953 , Modern Refrigeration , Volume 56, page 176,

A modern abattoir and meatworks , which will supply meat for local consumption and export, will be established at Kadina, in South Australia. The Premier (Mr. Playford) announced recently the project would cost about £500,000.

* 1970' August, N. Wellls, J. S.. Whitton, ''The Influence of '''Meatworks Effluents on Soil and Plant Composition'', G. J. Neale (editor), ''New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research , Volume 13, Number 3, page 499,

The effluents used for the irrigation schemes included discharges from most sections of the meatworks and from yards and roofs; in the Islington works some separate soakaways in the gravels were used for strong chemical discharges.

* 1983 , Grolier Society of Australia, The Australian Encyclopaedia , Volume 2, page 199,

In addition, a rigorous inspection of all meatworks , export or otherwise, continued to be enforced in all States.

* 2007 , G. C. Bolton, Blythe, Lindsay Gordon (1908-1986)'', Diane Langmore, Darryl Bennet (editors), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 17 1981-1990: A-K , page 116,

Isolation from the nearest meatworks' at Wyndham and Broome was a major impediment to marketing beef. Blythe took up the idea of killing cattle at an abattoir on Glenroy and air-freighting the carcasses to a ' meatworks , thus eliminating the loss of condition inevitable in droving cattle long distances.