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manufacturing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun manufacturing has 1 sense
- manufacturing(n = noun.act) fabrication, manufacture - the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain" is a kind of creating from raw materials
has particulars: formation, shaping, newspeak, prefabrication
CIDE DICTIONARY
manufacturing, a.
- Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture; as, a manufacturing community; a manufacturing town. [1913 Webster]
- Pertaining to manufacture; as, manufacturing projects. [1913 Webster]
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