Meaning

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place..

Definitions by Sense

1. A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
2. (UK, slang) A police station.
3. A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
4. A factory farm.
5. (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
6. (attributive) The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
7. (chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor.
8. (historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

Example Sentences

History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.

[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.

The guys all knew each other and we were having a jolly old chinwag as we marched them out of the house in front of their stunned neighbours and into a van we had called to take them all to the Factory (police station).

Radio became a star factory for journalists.

chicken factory; pig factory

The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.

factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset

Word Forms

• factories

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Use factory when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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