WORKS :  n 1: buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles" [syn: plant, industrial plant] 2: everything available; usually preceded by `the'; "we saw the whole shebang"; "a hotdog with the works"; "we took on the whole caboodle"; "for $10 you get the full treatment" [syn: whole shebang, whole kit and caboodle, kit and caboodle, whole kit and boodle, kit and boodle, whole kit, whole caboodle, whole works, full treatment] 3: performance of moral or religious acts; "salvation by deeds"; "the reward for good works" [syn: deeds] 4: the internal mechanism of a device [syn: workings]

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