Usually means: Systems for water supply management.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word waterworks:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. waterworks: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. waterworks: Merriam-Webster
  3. waterworks, waterworks: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. waterworks: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. waterworks: Collins English Dictionary
  6. waterworks: Vocabulary.com
  7. Waterworks, waterworks: Wordnik
  8. waterworks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. waterworks: Wiktionary
  10. waterworks: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. waterworks: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. waterworks: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. waterworks: Dictionary.com
  14. waterworks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Waterworks, Waterworks (card game), Waterworks (disambiguation), Waterworks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. waterworks: Rhymezone
  17. Waterworks: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. waterworks: FreeDictionary.org
  19. waterworks: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. waterworks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Waterworks (water park), waterworks: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. waterworks: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. waterworks: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. waterworks: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. waterworks: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place, including reservoirs, pipes, and pumps.
noun:  (treated as singular) Any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system.
noun:  (figuratively)
noun:  (informal) Often in the form turn on the waterworks: crying or tears, especially in a way that is considered manipulative or over-emotional.
noun:  (informal) Rain.
noun:  (British, euphemistic) The genitourinary system.
noun:  (historical, treated as singular) A hydraulic apparatus by which a supply of water is furnished for ornamental purposes; also, an ornamental fountain or waterfall.
noun:  (construction, archaic) Engineering works relating to the conveyance and flow of fluids (principally water), such as the collection and distribution of water, drainage, irrigation, etc.

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