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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
fac·to·ry       [fak-tuh-ree, -tree] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -ries.
1.a building or group of buildings with facilities for the manufacture of goods.
2.any place producing a uniform product, without concern for individuality: They call it a law school, but it's just a degree factory.
3.(formerly) an establishment for factors and merchants carrying on business in a foreign country.
[Origin: 1550–60; < ML factōria. See factor, -y3]

—Related forms
fac·to·ry·like, adjective
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fac·to·ry       (fāk'tə-rē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. fac·to·ries
    1. A building or group of buildings in which goods are manufactured; a plant.
    2. A vessel in which newly caught seafood is prepared for shipment and sale: a floating fish factory.
  2. A business establishment for commercial agents or factors in a foreign country.
  3. The source of prolific production: a rock group that was a hit-tune factory; a motel that served as an illegal drug factory.


[Late Latin factōria, oil press, mill, and Medieval Latin factōria, establishment for factors, both from Latin factor, factor; see factor.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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factory

noun
a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Factory

Fac"to*ry\, n.; pl. Factories (-r?z). [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." --Burke.

2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. --W. Guthrie.

3. 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.

Factory leg (Med.), a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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