saltworks
IPA: sɔɫtwɝks
noun
- A place where salt is refined and prepared commercially.
- (figuratively) A job, usually considered boring drudgery.
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Examples of "saltworks" in Sentences
- The saltworks, an hour south of Athens, shut in 1969.
- Anavyssos saltworks: It stopped producing salt in the 1960s, and the site sits empty.
- Charles Forelle/The Wall Street Anavyssos saltworks: It stopped producing salt in the 1960s, and the site sits empty.
- The terrestrial component include important ecosystems associated with the saltworks areas (Las Salinas de Ibiza y Forementera).
- In the suburban region north of the old saltworks, Anna Skouloudis , a retired Olympic Airlines flight attendant, has that figured out.
- Thanks to this traditional use, saltworks (except one) are in an exceptional state of conservation and still have an optimal aquatic system.
- They include the site of a former saltworks on a mile-and-a-half of beach, an old golf course on the island of Rhodes and a 200-acre waterfront plot with campsites and thermal baths.
- Japan and Mexico are already successful business partners, with joint-ownership of the Exportadora de Sal (ESSA saltworks located south of Guerrero Negro) by Mitsubishi and the Mexican government.
- Recently, these advocates celebrated the tenth anniversary of their victory to persuade the Mexican government to abandon a massive Mitsubishi saltworks project that would have destroyed the lagoon and whale breeding habitat.
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