Factory Works Noun ˈfæktri ˈfæktəri Car Closed Ten

• a car factory
• the factory closed down ten years ago.
• she works in the local textile factory.
• factory workers

factory

1. a building or group of buildings where goods are made, mainly by machine
• a car factory
• The factory closed down ten years ago.
• She works in the local textile factory.
• factory workers

Extra Examples

• He works in a shoe factory.
• They had to close the factory down in the recession.
• capital to set up a ceramics factory
• a chocolate/cigarette/clothing/soap factory
2. a person or organization that continuously produces a large quantity of a particular thing
• This record label has become a real hit factory (= one that produces a lot of successful songs).
• These universities are becoming colourless degree factories, with no sense of what higher learning is really about.

Word Origin

• late 16th cent. (originally referring to a place where traders did business in a foreign country): via Portuguese feitoria. The current sense is based on late Latin factorium, literally ‘oil press’.