manufacturer
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).
– derivatives
manufacturability noun,
manufacturable adjective,
manufacturer noun,
manufacturing adjective & noun.
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.
'manufacturer' also found in these Oxford entries:
Allen key
- Burberry
- cook-chill
- davenport
- drop-ship
- Elsan
- factor
- Fordism
- Grand Marnier
- hosier
- IMEI
- ironmaster
- list price
- macfarlane
- make
- manufacture
- MSRP
- Muntz metal
- non-proprietary
- OEM
- parallel imports
- Phillips
- recall
- reverse engineering
- Stanley knife
- Stetson
- touch mark
- toymaker
- trade price
- Tupperware
- unsupported
- warranty
- Winchester
- wool-stapler
- Zimmer
