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- Dictionaryfactory/ˈfakt(ə)ri/
noun
- 1. a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine: "a clothing factory"
- 2. an establishment for traders carrying on business in a foreign country: historical "he is chaplain to the British factory at St Petersburg"
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a building or set of buildings where large amounts of goods are made using machines: a car / shoe / textile factory. a factory worker / manager. Synonym. mill. Fewer examples. The factory supplies electrical components for cars. The report is highly critical of safety standards at the factory.
The meaning of FACTORY is a station where factors reside and trade. How to use factory in a sentence.
A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another.
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 set of buildings where large amounts of goods are made using machines: a car / shoe / textile factory. a factory worker / manager. Synonym. mill. Fewer examples. The factory supplies electrical components for cars. The report is highly critical of safety standards at the factory.
A factory is a big building in which products are made, like Willie Wonka's fictional Chocolate Factory, which was famous for producing (among other sweets and treats) the one-of-a-kind Everlasting Gobstopper.
A factory is a large building where machines are used to make goods in large quantities.
a person or organization that continuously produces a large quantity of a particular thing. This record label has become a real hit factory (= one that produces a lot of successful songs). (disapproving) These universities are becoming colourless degree factories, with no sense of what higher learning is really about. see also troll factory.
(formerly) an establishment for factors and merchants carrying on business in a foreign country.
a building or group of buildings where large amounts of products are made or put together: a textile factory. Fewer examples. a factory inspector. Safety at the factory has been improved. The factory currently employs 750 people. The closure of the factory and the consequent loss of 400 jobs was a real blow to the town.
