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factory

[fak-tuh-ree, -tree]

noun, plural -ries.

a building or group of buildings with facilities for the manufacture of goods.

any place producing a uniform product, without concern for individuality: They call it a law school, but it's just a degree factory.

(formerly) an establishment for factors and merchants carrying on business in a foreign country.

Origin:
1550–60; < Medieval Latin factōria. See factor, -y³

Related forms

fac·to·ry·like, adjective

sub·fac·to·ry, noun, plural -ries.

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How a four-hour clash in a walkway between factory dormitories unleashed national bloodshed.

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But there are perils when managers can no longer prowl through their own factory.

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How a four-hour clash in a walkway between factory dormitories unleashed national bloodshed.

One factory that hasn't headed overseas is education.

But there are perils when managers can no longer prowl through their own factory.

Small farms have been replaced by large, industrialized factory operations, and.

No, the entire mirror factory isn't filled with smoke.

The factory superintendent nodded politely and led them into a large building with peeling gray stucco walls.

Wealthy factory owners and merchants built grand mansions and helped fund even grander churches.

His family has been working at the bone factory for generations, he says.

Wherever it appears, factory farming threatens the environment and threatens local political control.

Universities are a direct factory producing the opposite.

Hyundai has a large factory that manufactures transport containers and lorry trailers.

Take a virtual tour of a chocolate factory and nibble on the history and science of this beloved treat.

But the biggest boost comes from a good solar panel factory.

It isn't the vast factory floor of the past, but it is still built for speed.

If our local grocery wasn't stocked to the brim with factory farmed food.

Manufacturers and factory owners needn't worry about pesky human workers for too much longer.

Bills in three states would criminalize undercover investigations at factory farms.

The same argument was made with non-union factory workers.

The demonstrators say they will stay there until the factory is shut or moved.

How one supercharged province cranks out lightbulbs, buttons and bra rings, as well as instant cities for the factory workers.

Manure spills from factory farms happen all the time and kill thousands of fish and pollute rivers and streams.

He briefly worked in a tobacco factory before turning to odd jobs in return for room and board.

Each of those skis comes from the factory with a certain base material and a certain structure ground into the base.

Peanut factory tied to salmonella outbreak had been cited for health violations.

Factory and construction workers are routinely laid off during slow periods and they collect unemployment benefits.

Some factory robots are now smart enough to be released from their safety cages to work among humans.

One supercharged province cranks out instant cities for factory workers.

It¿s the reverse process that one experiences downwind from a pig farm or chocolate factory.

The factory ship's speed and artless efficiency made whale hunting cost-effective.

On the left, a rather more vintage specimen, embalmed at the factory.

Another advantage, he says, is that the client can walk through modules at the factory as soon as the first ones are finished.

Factory after factory, every one of them advertising light fittings, lines the road.

Visit the town's carpet factory to watch workers while they weave the carpets.

Factory farming has produced bigger sweeter fruits and vegetables that are less nutritious than ever before.

Well, they buy factory farmed beef, pay their workers a dismal salary and standardize everything.

The owner estimates that if the factory remains under water for a full month, it could take two months more to clean.

It is often easy to spot pollution from a factory or to see that trash dumped along a stream is causing pollution.

On the other edge, that size advantage only works if the factory is making lots of batteries and selling them.

Factory's vitamin and cosmetic factory has educational displays and complimentary samples.

Factory employment has been slower to recover than output, since productivity has risen.

Get inside the fire extinguisher factory to see how they are made and how they work to put out blazes.

In some cases, thousands of people have been evacuated after an accident at a factory or during transport of liquefied chlorine.

The beauty of the technology is that it does not need to happen in a factory.

Mobin was already making plans to move his factory several miles to the north.

Factory farms on the other hand are intensive breeding grounds for diseases.

Measuring what is going on in a ketchup factory can, however, be hard.

Pratham workers also negotiate with factory owners to release children from employment obligations.

And, the can be produced quickly out of a port factory and moved by sea to their place of operation.

More recently a privately owned machinery factory sat in the temple grounds.

And a former cigarette factory is being rehabbed for similar uses.

At the time, researchers¿and funding agencies¿wanted robots for factory automation.

Superior has opened a new plant close to its main factory.

Seven other bodies were recovered outside a textiles factory.

The stars may have been the factory but not the chemist.

The factory was opened with great fanfare by the president three years ago.

After protesters broke into the facility and destroyed offices and overturned cars, the factory closed.

Often those animal lives are lived in horrible factory farms, only to die in slaughterhouses.

However, no single factory can handle such bulk, so five different suppliers must share the order.

He inherited an organisation with workers so ill-disciplined that they got drunk and urinated on the factory floor.

But factory bosses have recently complained of labour.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

factory (ˈfæktərɪ)

—n , pl -ries
1.	a. a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly for the manufacture of goods
	b. (as modifier): a factory worker
2.	rare a trading station maintained by factors in a foreign country
3.	(Canadian) (formerly) a main trading station for the exchange and transshipment of furs

[C16: from Late Latin factorium; see factor]

'factory-like

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

factory

1560, "estate manager's office," from M.Fr. factorie, from L.L. factorium "office for agents (factors)," also "oil press, mill," from L. factor "doer, maker." Sense of "building for making goods" is first attested 1618.

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