Synonyms of manufacturing

manufacturing

verb

present participle of manufacture

1

as in producing

to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials

the company manufactures appliances and electronics

Synonyms & Similar Words

• producing
• making
• creating
• assembling
• building
• constructing
• fabricating
• forming
• framing
• fashioning
• crafting
• putting together
• organizing
• shaping
• designing
• structuring
• molding
• erecting
• forging
• inventing
• rearing
• establishing
• making up
• originating
• throwing up
• handcrafting
• raising
• setting up
• knocking out
• devising
• putting up
• thinking (up)
• prefabricating
• patching (together)
• instituting
• remanufacturing
• cooking (up)
• remaking
• visualizing
• minting
• hewing
• conceiving
• imagining
• contriving
• concocting
• cobbling (together or up)
• fathering
• picturing
• refashioning
• envisaging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dismantling
• destroying
• disassembling
• wrecking
• breaking up
• abolishing
• flattening
• ruining
• eradicating
• extinguishing
• devastating
• taking apart
• shattering
• smashing
• exterminating
• pulverizing
• demolishing
• exploding
• annihilating
• dismembering
• blowing up
• razing

2

as in devising

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

he manufactured some story about how his car broke down and he was unable to call home and let anyone know that he would be late

Synonyms & Similar Words

• devising
• constructing
• inventing
• concocting
• designing
• producing
• thinking (up)
• cooking (up)
• coming up with
• drumming up
• fabricating
• excogitating
• making up
• hatching
• contriving
• vamping (up)
• trumping up
• conceiving
• dreaming
• envisioning
• coining
• visualizing
• imagining
• improvising
• fantasizing
• daydreaming
• envisaging
• visioning
• extemporizing
• picturing
• ad-libbing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reproducing
• copying
• duplicating
• cloning
• imitating
• replicating
• mimicking
• reduplicating
• copycatting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of manufacturing

Intel’s PowerVia is one implementation, although manufacturing such structures requires additional processing, including wafer thinning and precise backside connections. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026

The humanoid is built to help warehouse and manufacturing employees with repetitive tasks like lifting boxes, stacking totes and moving items from other mobile robots onto conveyor belts. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026

Blue Origin announced two significant upgrades to its New Glenn rocket on Thursday, reducing the cost of manufacturing the vehicle and expanding its capacity for payload delivery to geostationary orbit and the Moon, Ars reports. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026

But with fewer homes built at the expense of business construction – from manufacturing to data centers – the supply squeeze will only drive up prices and rents for the workers who are needed for those jobs. — Abigail Hall, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026

Sun Pharma had previously said the site was expected to become one of its largest manufacturing ⁠hubs for sterile products in a business identified as a key global growth driver. — Ed Silverman, STAT, 30 Oct. 2026

When pressed on the economy, Gruters pointed to Trump’s push to limit federal taxes on tips and overtime pay, to create investment accounts for children and to bring back manufacturing jobs. — Ana Ceballos, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

Instead of tech, companies tied to industrial and manufacturing businesses in Europe could continue to benefit from the ramp up in defense spending there. — Sarah Min, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026

Goebbels knew the value of fake news and was an expert in manufacturing it. — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026