assembly line
an arrangement of machines, tools, and workers in which a product is assembled by having each perform a specific, successive operation on an incomplete unit as it passes by in a series of stages organized in a direct line.
Origin of assembly line
1- Also called production line.
Words Nearby assembly line
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How to use assembly line in a sentence
In the early 2000s, many people who worked in manufacturing in north Alabama supported Southern Democrats, and Obama enjoyed support on assembly lines and in union halls.
So they drove tractors on farms or they worked on assembly lines and in explosive factories.
Humans Have Gotten Nicer and Better at Making War - Issue 94: Evolving | Steve Paulson | January 6, 2021 | NautilusThey were constructed with speed and precision in mind, making them ideal for things like assembly line work.
Why ‘soft robots’ have NASA, doctors, and tech whizzes so excited | jakemeth | January 1, 2021 | FortuneIt was an assembly line of sorts, if assembly lines involved a lot of talking, laughing and pan dulce breaks.
At the end of an isolating year, even the embarrassing, frustrating, weird parts of family gatherings feel missed | Theresa Vargas | December 26, 2020 | Washington PostA new company, Iowa Beef Packers, later bought by Tyson, was transforming the industry with automated factories built like an assembly line.
As COVID-19 Ravaged This Iowa City, Officials Discovered Meatpacking Executives Were the Ones in Charge | by Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung | December 21, 2020 | ProPublica
At break time, the entire assembly line would run over to play the machines that were ready to be shipped out.
These two women are assembly-line workers in the ultimate factory of patriarchy.
If Kate Middleton’s Butt Could Speak: It’s Time Royal Princesses Led Visible, Voluble Public Lives | Tim Teeman | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBy the early 2000s, however, the pendulum was starting to swing back toward the old assembly-line model—with one big difference.
Amid this, however, New York occupied a central place in the assembly-line production of hits and musical acts.
‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical’ Review: A Few Discordant Notes, But Damn Great Songs | Daniel Gross | January 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“It's an assembly line,” says Chloe Hilliard, an up-and-coming African American New York City-based working stand up comic.
SNL's Kenan Thompson and the Invisible Black Women of Comedy | Tricia Romano | October 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe kind they turn off the assembly line to hold up the fronts of pool parlors.
The man didn't look at him; he kept his eyes averted from both Lee and the blood-spattered assembly line.
The Brain | Alexander BladeIt reminded Verkan Vail of some sort of industrial assembly-line operation.
Last Enemy | Henry Beam PiperAt the very end of this assembly line a crane was loading a finished object onto a flat-bed trailer.
Space Platform | Murray LeinsterThe assembly line of pushpots grew shorter, and the remaining monstrosities around the sidewall were plainly near to completion.
Space Platform | Murray Leinster
British Dictionary definitions for assembly line
a sequence of machines, tools, operations, workers, etc, in a factory, arranged so that at each stage a further process is carried out
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Cultural definitions for assembly line
A line of factory workers and equipment along which a product being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed.
Notes for assembly line
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