factory

noun
/ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

Other meanings

A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
A factory farm.
“chicken factory; pig factory”

Synonyms

mill
manufacturing plant

Related words

antifactory
autofactory
biofactory
factoried
factorylike
factoryscape
factorywise
factoryworker
gigafactory
interfactory
intrafactory
megafactory

Example sentences

“Help! I'm trapped in a sentence factory!”
Tatoeba · hecko2 · CC0
“Factory farming isn't natural.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Dutch "facture" (bill).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “factory” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.