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Definition of Manufactory
1. Noun. A plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing.
Specialized synonyms: Assembly Plant, Auto Factory, Automobile Factory, Car Factory, Cannery, Chemical Plant, Foundry, Metalworks, Lumbermill, Sawmill, Paper Mill, Stamp Mill, Stamping Mill, Steel Factory, Steel Mill, Steel Plant, Steelworks, Sweatshop, Textile Mill
Examples of category: Closed-circuit Television, Conveyer, Conveyer Belt, Conveyor, Conveyor Belt, Transporter, Uptime
Generic synonyms: Industrial Plant, Plant, Works
Terms within: Assembly Line, Line, Production Line, Shop Floor
Definition of Manufactory
1. n. Manufacture.
2. a. Pertaining to manufacturing.
Definition of Manufactory
1. Noun. A manufacturing process; a particular industry or part of an industry. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
2. Noun. A plant where something is manufactured; a factory. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
3. Adjective. (obsolete) Relating to manufacture. (defdate 18th-19th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Manufactory
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manufactory
Literary usage of Manufactory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"DRESDEN CHINA AND ITS manufactory AT MEISSEN, SAXONY. The town of Meissen is a
quaint, but not very interesting, old town built on a hill, with a castle ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The seat of the manufactory was then transferred to Sèvres, and the official
title was assumed of "manufacture royale de porcelaine de France. ..."
3. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings (1858)
"The School and the manufactory—Both Sides of the Question. By the Kev. ...
Or (3) the parents have yielded to the pressure of the manufactory ..."
4. Gazetteer of the State of New York: Embracing a Comprehensive View of the by Frank Place (1860)
"Refuge for Juvenile Delinquent«, 432, 433. Regalia manufactory ... Seamless Rag
manufactory, 690, 688. Sealer of Weight» and Measures, 30, 38. ..."
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