factory
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
factory/ˈfaktri/
▶noun (pl. factories)
- 1 a building or buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
- 2 historical an establishment for traders carrying on business in a foreign country.
– origin C16: from late L. factorium, lit. ‘oil press’, and Port. feitoria.
'factory' also found in these Oxford entries:
assembly line
- bindery
- cannery
- compound
- creamery
- DUKW
- ex-works
- factory farming
- factory floor
- factory ship
- factory shop
- fitting shop
- fodder
- foundry
- hand
- hard hat
- manufactory
- maquiladora
- Minton
- outwork
- paint shop
- pottery
- printworks
- retool
- rolling mill
- sawmill
- shop floor
- shop steward
- shutdown
- smokestack
- steelworks
- sweatshop
- tenter
