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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
manufacture/manjuˈfaktʃə(r)/
▶verb
  • 1 make (something) on a large scale using machinery.
  • 2 (of a living thing) produce (a substance) naturally.
  • 3 make or produce (something abstract) in a merely mechanical way.
  • 4 invent or fabricate (evidence or a story).
▶noun the process of manufacturing.
– derivatives
manufacturability noun,
manufacturable adjective,
manufacturer noun,
manufacturing adjective & noun.
– origin C16 (denoting something made by hand): from Fr. (re-formed by assoc. with L. manu factum ‘made by hand’), from Ital. manifattura.



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