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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
waterworks
noun
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▪ Aliens do not steer themselves through space guided by the village waterworks.
▪ Before Reagan turned on the waterworks, crying in public was widely considered a sign of weakness.
▪ In the name of self-help, the Masai were asked to pay for the waterworks by selling cattle.
▪ It is recorded that when the Local Government Board assumed control of the waterworks in 1854, Henry was most upset.
▪ Landscaping will include waterworks, a reference to the ocean view the museum will enjoy.
▪ No other waterworks project in history has forced the resettlement of so many people.
▪ The gasworks and waterworks would, of course, serve the mill as well.
▪ They'd look at the waterworks and come back.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
waterworks

mid-15c., from water (n.1) + work (n.).

Wiktionary
waterworks

n. 1 (context in the singular English) the water supply system of a town etc., including reservoirs, pumps and pipes 2 (context in the singular English) any single facility, such as a filtration plant, within such a system 3 (context informal in the plural English) tears 4 (context informal in the plural English) the genitourinary system

WordNet
waterworks

  1. n. a public utility that provides water [syn: water company]

  2. workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community

Wikipedia
Waterworks (card game)

Waterworks is a card game created by Parker Brothers in 1972. The game pieces consist of a deck of 110 pipe cards, 1 bathtub-shaped card tray, and 10 small metal wrenches. The object is for each player to create a pipeline of a designated length, beginning with a valve and ending with a spout. Players race to be the first to complete a continuous, leak-free pipeline that connects their valve card to their spout card.

Waterworks (disambiguation)

Waterworks is the provision of water supply by public utilities, commercial organisations, community endeavours or by individuals.

Waterworks may also refer to:

  • Waterworks (card game)
  • Waterworks, Isle of Man, a point on a motorcycle road-racing course used for TT and Manx Grand Prix races
  • WaterWorks, a water park at Kings Dominion
  • Water Works, Belfast
  • The Waterworks (novel), a novel by E.L. Doctorow
  • (informal) the Genitourinary system

Usage examples of "waterworks".

Allegheny Water Authority treatment plant is on the Allegheny, right next to the Waterworks Mall.

Shit, I could always turn the waterworks on so easily as a kid, win my aunties round, and get a packet of crisps.

I went to schools, hospitals, lunatic asylums, institutes for deaf and dumb, waterworks, historical societies, telegraph offices, and large commercial establishments.

He gestured around at the bright dusty day and the clangour of Khalid's shop, the mills, the waterworks powering the big blast furnaces, the noise and movement.

I rent a couple of rooms there for the business, in the same building as the Rural District Council, and the Waterworks Company.

Munford’s artillery command post at Brigade headquarters in a waterworks building near the bridge.

Seemingly obedient, though, to the verdicts of her psychiatric report, Miss Didion writes about everything with the same doom-conscious yet faintly abstract intensity of interest, whether remarking on the dress sense of one of Manson's henchwomen, or indulging her curious obsession with Californian waterworks.

This alienated Mali- He needed a mother, not a waterworks utility like the one on the Monopoly board.

You don't look like her and know how to turn the waterworks on and off without knowing how to keep your mascara from running too.