industrial estate

noun

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

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Among other big gainers is Jareeporn Jarukornsakul, cofounder and group CEO of WHA, an industrial estate, warehouse, and logistics firm. — Phisanu Phromchanya, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Outside its doors, there will soon be 450 residential units on a plot that, until recently, housed an industrial estate; Sunderland AFC and the City Council have agreed plans that won’t preclude the club from extending the South Stand in the future. — James McNicholas, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026 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 Madrid, Spain Reuters — Around 160,000 people in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region were warned to stay inside on Saturday after a fire at an industrial estate caused a toxic cloud of chlorine over a wide area, emergency services said. — Reuters, CNN Money, 10 May 2025

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“Industrial estate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/industrial%20estate. Accessed 14 Jul. 2026.

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