tool-and-die_work has definitions from the fields of work,business
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[ noun ] (work,business) the craft of making special tools and dies

Used in print

(James Bryant Conant, Slums and Suburbs...)

These opportunities are to be found in certain cities in such crafts as auto_mechanics , carpentry , drafting , electrical_work , tool-and-die_work , and sheet-metal work .

To_be_sure , in tool-and-die_work and in the building trades , the first job must be often on an apprentice basis , but two years of halftime vocational training enables the young man thus to anticipate one year of apprentice status .

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