production line

noun

: line sense 6j

Examples of production line in a Sentence

He works on the production line at the local factory.
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But a dollar paid in tax cannot also finance an engineer’s salary or a new production line. — Rick Lazio, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026 The attack badly damaged two production lines, taking out about 17% of Qatar’s LNG export capacity. — Spencer Kimball,deena Zaidi, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026 Together, the $225 million package will fund domestic facilities and production lines to help build the specialized modules needed to run commercial fusion reactors. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026 One nonwovens production line case study showed causal AI reducing scrap by 10 percent. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for production line

Word History

First Known Use

1905, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of production line was in 1905

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“Production line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/production%20line. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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