business; manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory; cabinet, studio; office, branch office bureau, atelier. [specific types of workplace: list], hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary†; armory; laboratory, lab, research institute; refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor; beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery†, usine†, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery†; furnace; vineyard; crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix. Adj. at work, at the office, at the shop; working.