Definitions for factory

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factory fac·to·ry

Spelling: [fak-tuh-ree, -tree]

IPA: /ˈfæk tə ri, -tri/

Factory is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in factory (acforty).

Definitions for factory

noun

1. a building or group of buildings with facilities for the manufacture of goods.
2. any place producing a uniform product, without concern for individuality:
3. (formerly) an establishment for factors and merchants carrying on business in a foreign country.

Origin of factory

From the Medieval Latin word factōria, dating back to 1550-60. See factor, -y³

Examples for factory

It is the superintendent of the factory in our village—a man rich, or, at any rate, well-to-do.

Now, how much better off should I have been if I had kept my place in the factory?

By 1980, the Glock family was living atop their factory, making curtain rods as well as weapons.

Meanwhile, fortune had improved with Mr. Davis, the superintendent of the factory.

The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.

But he had been cut out, and by Robert Rushton—one of his father's factory hands.

Haloid spent nearly 15 years and $75 million developing prototype copiers, even building a factory in 1954 far ahead of demand.

For decades afterward, the profession remained mostly female and was considered less valuable labor than, say, factory work.

While Gaston designed firearms, the rest of the family kept the factory going.

Then you could have stayed in the factory, and got your wages regularly every week.