Definition of factory
factories
1 : a station where factors reside and trade a colonial factory
2a : a building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturingb : the seat of some kind of production the vice factories of the slums
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Examples of factory in a Sentence
She got a job in the factory.
the new factory will create hundreds of much-needed jobs
Recent Examples of factory from the Web
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The Adamstown factory is responsible for about 20 percent of Kangol production, with the rest coming from plants in England, Italy, Taiwan, China and Vietnam.
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Long workdays in a factory no longer appeal to those older workers, even with the promise of overtime pay.
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Ms. Tran had raised $50 million to set up a suit factory in Ho Chi Minh City, betting on the increased access to markets like the U.S. that the Trans-Pacific Partnership was supposed to bring.
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During their final phone conversation on Saturday, Hua told Li that police had asked him to stop investigating the Huajian factory — another turn of events that Li said was unprecedented.
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Confidence in Ontario, which has relied on real estate and factory exports to the U.S., declined to 60.4 from 63.4 on the month.
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My visit to the Yaskawa factory illustrated these positives.
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Development planning in Lockport along I-355 is similar to what Bolingbrook looks like along I-55 with several warehouses and factories mixed with commercial retail sites at the interchanges.
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After just two days on the job, Zach McBride had been let go from the factory.
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First Known Use of factory
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FACTORY Defined for English Language Learners
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: a building or group of buildings where products are made
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: a place where products are manufactured
Word Root of factory
The Latin word facere, meaning “to make” or “to do,” and its form factus give us the roots fic, fact, and fect. Words from the Latin facere have something to do with making or doing something. To manufacture is to make goods. This is often done in a factory. Something difficult is hard to do. Anything effective does what it is meant to do.
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