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factory
| factory farm
| factory price
| factory ship
| factory whistle
| factory worker
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun factory has 1 sense
- factory(n = noun.artifact) manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill - a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing; Array has particulars: assembly plant, auto factory, automobile factory, car factory, cannery, chemical plant, foundry, metalworks, lumbermill, sawmill, paper mill, stamp mill, stamping mill, steel factory, steel mill, steel plant, steelworks, sweatshop, textile mill
is a kind of industrial plant, plant, works
has parts: assembly line, line, production line, shop floor
CIDE DICTIONARY
factory, n. [Cf. F. factorerie.].
- A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. Burke. [1913 Webster]
- The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. W. Guthrie. [1913 Webster]
- A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
factory, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a building or buildings containing plant or equipment for manufacturing machinery or goods.
2 hist. a merchant company's foreign trading station.
1 a building or buildings containing plant or equipment for manufacturing machinery or goods.
2 hist. a merchant company's foreign trading station.
Idiom
factory farm a farm employing factory farming. factory farming a system of rearing livestock using industrial or intensive methods. factory floor workers in industry as distinct from management. factory ship Brit. a fishing ship with facilities for immediate processing of the catch.
Etymology
Port. feitoria and LL factorium
THESAURUS
factory
armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, bindery, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, brewery, brickyard, cannery, creamery, dairy, defense plant, distillery, dockyard, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, flour mill, industrial park, industrial zone, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, mill, mint, munitions plant, oil refinery, packing house, plant, pottery, power plant, production line, push-button plant, refinery, sawmill, shipyard, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, tannery, winery, works, yard, yardsROGET THESAURUS
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Workshop
N workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business, manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory, cabinet, studio, office, branch office bureau, atelier, hive, hive of industry, nursery, hothouse, hotbed, kitchen, mint, forge, loom, dock, dockyard, alveary, armory, laboratory, lab, research institute, refinery, cannery, power plant, beauty parlor, beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf, foundry, foundery, furnace, vineyard, crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix, at work, at the office, at the shop, working.
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