noun.
An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
noun.
A facility that supplies coal.
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noun.
a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
Word Usage
"Clive Brill, the director, has had a good idea for the soundscape which doesn't quite work: the Volsci are Yorkshiremen, and the incidental music is therefore all in colliery brass band style."