industrial estate

noun

British
: an area outside of a town or city that is designed especially for factories or offices

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Local media also reported that the Marvdasht industrial estate near Shiraz was also targeted, with the electricity utility plant of the Marvdasht Petrochemical Plant being hit according to a communique issued by the Marvdasht governorate. — Kay Armin Serjoie, Time, 6 Apr. 2026 Investigators believe the chain of events began in the first half of May, at an otherwise unremarkable factory inside the industrial estate. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2025 Sustainable Mineral Extraction Process Aspiring’s pilot plant, which opened in February, is in an anonymous industrial estate east of the city. — IEEE Spectrum, 8 July 2025 Williams did anything and everything to make ends meet, including loading lorries on an industrial estate for the retailer British Home Stores and driving minibuses to pick up party-goers from nightclubs. — Stuart James, New York Times, 29 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for industrial estate

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“Industrial estate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/industrial%20estate. Accessed 9 Jul. 2026.

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