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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary fac·to·ry (plural -ries) DATE 1582 1. a station where factors reside and trade a colonial factory 2. a. a building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing b. the seat of some kind of production the vice factories of the slums English Etymology factory 1560, "estate manager's office," from M.Fr . factorie, from L.L.factorium "office for agents (factors)," also "oil press, mill," from L.factor "doer, maker." Sense of "building for making goods" is first attested 1618.http://M.Fr Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 ☞ factory fac·tory / 5fAktri; -tEri / noun(pl. -ies) a building or group of buildings where goods are made 工厂；制造厂: a car factory 汽车制造厂 factory workers 工厂工人 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English factory noun ADJ. large | small | modern | disused | aircraft, car, chemical, clothing, munitions, etc. VERB + FACTORY open, set up capital to set up a ceramics factory | close (down), shut (down) They had to close the factory down in the recession. | manage, run FACTORY + VERB make sth, produce sth | open | close (down), shut (down) The factory closed down ten years ago. FACTORY + NOUN manager, owner, worker | job, production, work | buildings | closure PREP. at/in ~ He works in a shoe factory. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus-11th Edition n. Function: noun an establishment for the manufacturing of goods FF1C;a shoe factoryFF1E; Synonyms: manufactory, mill, plant, works Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Search result show the entry is found in: whale factory ship , or factory ship , or factory committee , or factory farm , or factory lumber , or factory mutual , or factory system fac·to·ry \ˈfakt(ə)rē, -ri\ noun (-es) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle French factorie, from facteur factor + -erie -ery — more at factor 1. : an establishment (as a trading station) where factors or agents reside and transact business for their employers 2. a. : a building or collection of buildings with facilities (as power-driven machinery) for the manufacture of goods often from raw materials : a place where work is done in the fabricating of goods, wares, or utensils b. or factory ship : a ship equipped to process at sea whales or fishes brought to it by other ships c. : a place that is a seat of some kind of production < the leaf is a factory for carbohydrate production > < the vice factories of the slums > 3. chiefly Scotland : the office or function of a factor : factorship 4. now dialect : unbleached muslin |
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