fabricator

American  

[fab-ri-key-ter] / ˈfæb rɪˌkeɪ tər /

noun

1. a person who makes things by art or skill and labor.

   He’d spent some time as a fabricator of high-end military circuit boards.

2. a person or company that makes something by assembling parts or sections; manufacturer.

   With its lapped metal panels, the complexity of the design required top skills, and the fabricator Purly Manufacturing did an outstanding job.

3. a person who devises or invents something, especially a lie or a fictional narrative or character.

   The document paints him as a serial exaggerator and fabricator rather than a heroic whistleblower.

4. a person who produces something fake or counterfeit.

   The fabricators of these forged archeological artifacts are still fooling some people even today.

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Etymology

Origin of fabricator

First recorded in 1600–10; from Latin fabricātor, equivalent to fabricat(e) ( def. ) + -or ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Notable Primecap winners included Micron and semiconductor wafer fabricator KLA, while Equity Income owned Johnson & Johnson and Gilead Sciences.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

Once a luxury reserved for big manufacturers, smaller, smarter, more flexible and less expensive “cobots”—collaborative robots—are bringing automation to every fabricator, no matter the size.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Rains, a miner and countertop fabricator, had also been one of the few people holding onto hope of finding buried treasure in Havilah.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2024

Moving to Schuylkill County, in Pennsylvania, in 2021, he had access to local manufacturers, including a metal fabricator who primarily built roller coasters.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2024

He was an astrologer, an alchemist, and a fabricator of tales, and well did Henry Stubbes characterize him as "the very Pliny of our age for lying."

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene