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manufactory

noun

ˌman-yə-ˈfak-t(ə-)rē

Definition of manufactory

as in factory

a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods recent years have seen a tremendous growth in manufactories all along the river

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Recent Examples of manufactory The timepiece continues to be hand-crafted in Porsche’s watch manufactory in Solothurn, Switzerland. — Chris Gardner For The Hollywood Reporter, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2025 British spectacle maker Cubitts has opened The Yard, its new headquarters and optical manufactory in King’s Cross, London. — Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 25 June 2026 The very nineteenth-century manufactories that Marx described—with a different worker manually forging, shaping, and finishing metal in a long line to produce a product for sale—were still in operation on the streets of Naples. — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024 For guests interested in Vienna’s living craft legacy, the hotel can arrange visits to artisans and ateliers around the city, including Bösendorfer pianos and Augarten, a 300-year-old porcelain manufactory. — Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024

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Its walls, made in a Tijuana factory, consist of plywood panels insulated with foam.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
The physical danger from robot coworkers has been made clear since January 25, 1979, when 25-year-old Robert Nicholas Williams was crushed and killed by a 1-ton robotic vehicle’s arm inside a Ford Motor Company factory in Flat Rock, Michigan.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026

Definition of factory

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Kruszewski recalls reading about Japanese mills purchasing antique fabric looms from American manufacturers that were closing during the early stages of globalization.

— Emmanuel Olunkwa, Architectural Digest, 1 July 2026
Mesmerizing to look at, this singular Mistral stands out in a line already limited to only 99 examples and claimed to be the finale of street-legal models powered by the W16 mill.

— Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 30 June 2026

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