noun
- a factory or workshop where the bodies of motor vehicles or coaches are built or repaired
Usage: chiefly British; usually used in singular or plural form
Examples
- The vintage car was restored at a specialist coachworks in England.
- The company's coachworks produced custom bus bodies for decades.
- After the accident, the vehicle was sent to the local coachworks for repairs.
- Many historic coachworks have closed as manufacturing has shifted overseas.
- The coachworks employed skilled craftspeople who hand-built each vehicle body.