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factory
[ fak-tuh-ree, -tree ]
noun
- 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.
factory
/ ˈfæktərɪ /
noun
- a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly for the manufacture of goods
- ( as modifier )
a factory worker
- rare.a trading station maintained by factors in a foreign country
- (formerly) a main trading station for the exchange and transshipment of furs
Derived Forms
- ˈfactory-ˌlike, adjective
Other Words From
- facto·ry·like adjective
- sub·facto·ry noun plural subfactories
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of factory1
Example Sentences
The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
A plastic factory, a hardware supplier, and shipping–and-receiving giants like Fed-Ex and DHL are neighboring businesses.
Not just a candy factory but a candy store, and everything in it free.
By day, she cares for her children in a bombed-out milk factory that hosts her orphanage, Okutiuka.
Have we become a nation of Veruca Salts from “Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory,” who are unbearably demanding?
It was afterwards used as a schoolroom in connection with Winfield's factory.
A Lowell factory-girl would consider this entirely out of character, and a New-York milliner would be shocked at the idea of it.
Think of this, ye who talk, not always without reason, of "factory slaves" and the meagre rewards of labor in America.
Gallinas, the noted slave factory on the west of Africa, purchased by the Liberian republic.
Seven o'clock in the morning is too early for any rational human being to be herded into a factory at the call of a steam whistle.
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