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UK
/fˈæktəɹˌi/
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[ US /ˈfæktɝi/ ]
[ US /ˈfæktɝi/ ]
NOUN
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
How To Use factory In A Sentence
- The fun was subsidised by the huge salaries writers were receiving from the Hollywood dream factory.
- The magazine gave voice to hundreds of oppressed factory workers.
- Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
- _clear, fair_, and _satisfactory_, not in our being always ready to offer an explanation, whether satisfactory or not. Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Met
- The criticisms of the law, and the absence of any satisfactory rationale justifies this course.
- The unions had almost no influence on the factory floor and were ineffective in collective bargaining.
- They evidently find the densely planted crop a satisfactory alternative to the nettles and brambles that they generally build in. Times, Sunday Times
- Most staff being laid off worked on the factory floor, assembling the thermostats and power regulators.
- Competition is keen and candidates must offer a minimum of an upper second class honours degree together with evidence of satisfactory financial arrangements.
- Celebrity steeplejack Fred Dibnah was supposed to end his days of felling factory chimneys with the demolition of the 175-ft Park Mill chimney in Royton yesterday.