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Word manufacture
WordType (verb)
Phonetic BrE / ˌmænjuˈfæktʃə(r) / NAmE / ˌmænjuˈfæktʃər /
Example
  • manufactured goods
  • a news story manufactured by an unscrupulous journalist
  • vitamins cannot be manufactured by our bodies.
  • plants use the sun's light to manufacture their food.
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manufacture

(verb)BrE / ˌmænjuˈfæktʃə(r) / NAmE / ˌmænjuˈfæktʃər /
  1. to make goods in large quantities, using machinery
    • synonym mass-produce
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/mass-produce
    • manufactured goods
  2. to invent a story, an excuse, etc.
    • a news story manufactured by an unscrupulous journalist
  3. to produce a substance
    • Vitamins cannot be manufactured by our bodies.
    • Plants use the sun's light to manufacture their food.

    Extra Examples

    • The evidence against him had been largely manufactured.
    • There were claims that the entire row had been manufactured by the press.
    • This company manufactures the equipment used to make contact lenses.

    Verb Forms

    • present simple I / you / we / they manufacture
    • he / she / it manufactures
    • past simple manufactured
    • past participle manufactured
    • -ing form manufacturing

    Word Origin

    • mid 16th cent. (as noun, denoting something made by hand): from French (re-formed by association with Latin manu factum ‘made by hand’), from Italian manifattura. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent.
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