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boiler room

NOUN
bucket shop
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Krauze joined what was then called the Vladimir Lenin shipyard in 1983, first in a coal-fired boiler room and later operating a crane.

From Barron's

She led me to the service staircase, down past the alteration room, into the boiler room.

From Literature

“I mean, I have never even heard of a boiler room” before coming to work there, she said.

From Los Angeles Times

The team inside the boiler room includes local workers and Naomi Pearmine, a Marine Engineer.

From BBC

The pool’s mechanical room looks like the boiler room of an ocean liner — with giant tanks that purify pool water and another system that stabilizes the temperature.

From Los Angeles Times