Synonyms of factories

factories

noun

plural of factory

as in mills

a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods

the new factory will create hundreds of much-needed jobs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mills
• plants
• shops
• works
• workshops
• manufactories
• workplaces
• sweatshops
• studios
• workrooms
• ateliers
• yards

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of factories

Once again, the shelf life of what’s filling our data centers is so brief that buying GPUs, say, is more like replenishing supermarket stocks than building factories that endure for decades. —Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026

Its deals fund films that sit squarely inside the traditional ecosystem — the furthest thing from multi-platform IP factories or content engines. —Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026

Hershey still makes much of its chocolate at its three factories in its namesake central Pennsylvania town, depending on nearby dairy farms for its milk. —David P. Willis, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026

For more than a century, smoke from a lead smelter and other factories deposited 400 million pounds of the toxic metal across the city’s east side. —Chris Bowling, ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2026

Companies make the acid in large factories, primarily overseas. —Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026

Wang Hao, Tesla's vice president, said the Shanghai facilities, like other Tesla factories, will contribute after the company enters an era of robots. —ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026

Multiple Iranian warplanes, helicopters and other equipment were destroyed, along with military installations and missile factories. —Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026

Linda was a union organizer for banks and clothing factories. —Menika Dirkson, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026