B2nounbusinesshistory
US/mɪl/
UK/mɪl/
a building with machines for making a product such as flour, paper or cloth
In context
The old mill by the river used to grind wheat into flour.
Thousands of workers lost their jobs when the textile mill closed.
Her grandfather spent forty years working in a paper mill.
Words that go with mill
noun + noun
- paper millThe paper mill pollutes the river.
- steel millThe steel mill employs half the town.
- textile millShe worked in a textile mill as a teenager.
- flour millThe flour mill still uses a water wheel.
- cotton millCotton mills filled the valley in the 1800s.
- mill workerHer father was a mill worker.
- mill townShe grew up in a small mill town in the north.