The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PLATES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PLATES
- Establish first class record stacking up dishes
- Dishes delayed in case of prayers
- In addition, last-minute illustrations
- Feet in system of exercise I scrubbed
- Overdue in payments? Disheartened with signs
- Exercise where one wasted flat disks
- Buries deceased in Police Station and covers with metal
- Staple broken kitchen items
- Stretching exercises one’s exported from China
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What does PLATES mean?
PLATES noun- A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
- Such dishes collectively.
- The contents of such a dish.
- A course at a meal.
- An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
- A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
- A vehicle license plate.
- A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
- A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
- A material covered with such a layer.
- A decorative or food service item coated with silver or gold.
- A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
- An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
- An image or copy.
- An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
- A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
- A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
- A foot, from "plates of meat".
- Home plate.
- A tectonic plate.
- Plate armour.
- Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
- A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
- The anode of a vacuum tube.
- Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes (from Spanish plata ("silver")).
- A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
- A prize given to the winner in a contest.
- Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
- (travel industry) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
- (travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
- A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
- One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
- A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
- (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
- (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
- A record, usually vinyl.
- To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
- To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
- To score a run.
- To arm or defend with metal plates.
- To beat into thin plates.
- (travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
- To categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
- (particularly with early British stamps) to identify the printing plate used.
- Precious metal, especially silver.