Look up: factory

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   factory
   [n] - a plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing
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   factory
   Equipment for taking drugs Category: General • a building...with facilities...for the manufacture of goods often from raw materials. Category: Economics
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   Factory
   Fac'to·ry noun ; plural Factories (-r...z). [ Confer French factorerie .] 1. A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. 'The Company's factory at Madras.' Burke. 2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory . W. Guthrie. 3. A building ...
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   factory
   Origin: Cf. F. Factorerie. ... 1. A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. 'The Company's factory at Madras.' ... 2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. ... 3. A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place whe ...
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   factory
   mill 1 manufacturing plant noun a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
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   Factory
   A `factory` (previously `manufactory`) or `manufacturing plant` is an industrial building where workers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Archetypally, factories gather and concentrate resources — workers, capital and plant.
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   Factory
   • (n.) A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. • (n.) 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. • (n.) The body of ...
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   factory
   factory, place of production characterized by wage labor, the use of machinery, and the division of labor. The large-scale use of machinery differentiates factory production from simple manufacture, and the division of labor sets it apart from even the most elaborate handicraft establishments. Stand...
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