as in factory
a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods recent years have seen a tremendous growth in manufactories all along the river

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Recent Examples of manufactory The timepiece continues to be hand-crafted in Porsche’s watch manufactory in Solothurn, Switzerland. Chris Gardner For The Hollywood Reporter, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2025 The very nineteenth-century manufactories that Marx described—with a different worker manually forging, shaping, and finishing metal in a long line to produce a product for sale—were still in operation on the streets of Naples. Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024 The timepiece continues to be hand-crafted in Porsche’s watch manufactory in Solothurn, Switzerland. Chris Gardner For The Hollywood Reporter, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2025 The very nineteenth-century manufactories that Marx described—with a different worker manually forging, shaping, and finishing metal in a long line to produce a product for sale—were still in operation on the streets of Naples. Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024 For guests interested in Vienna’s living craft legacy, the hotel can arrange visits to artisans and ateliers around the city, including Bösendorfer pianos and Augarten, a 300-year-old porcelain manufactory. Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024 These startlingly realistic vessels and objects sculpted or painted (or both) to mimic flora and fauna are seemingly everywhere, whether in the form of vintage pieces, those from traditional manufactories or collections created by a new wave of young makers. Alexa Brazilian Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023 The designer clothing website Matches now offers a garden’s worth of veggie earthenware from the 139-year-old Portuguese ceramics manufactory Bordallo Pinheiro, including plates that look like ragwort leaves, each affixed with a high relief ladybug. Alexa Brazilian Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023 Handcrafted at Porsche’s watch manufactory in Switzerland, the Chronograph 718 Spyder RS has a sleek, aerodynamic design and precise technical details inspired by its Boxster twin. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for manufactory
Noun
  • For example, China is the world's largest plastics manufacturer but some of its factories depend on ethane -- a feedstock mainly imported from the U.S. CHINA China is in the midst of a public holiday, with government offices and markets closed.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2025
  • But in some good news for consumers, Cook told CNBC that Apple is already sourcing over half of US iPhones from factories in India, a country that’s been spared from most of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Across fifteen of the world’s largest economies, from the steel mills of India to the data centres of the United States, business leaders are backing the energy transition.
    María Mendiluce, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Under a new owner, the steel mill closed permanently in 2012.
    Timothy B. Wheeler, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Rural coal plants power most facilities, clashing with green goals.
    Moin Roberts-Islam, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Low end reflects tariffs reverting to country specific levels resulting in plant closures.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025

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“Manufactory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manufactory. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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