factory.
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
Meaning & usage
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.
A police station.
A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
A factory farm.
chicken factory; pig factory
In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset
The position or state of being a factor.
A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
An invoice or inventory.
Where this word comes from
Probably from factor + -y, although in noun sense 1 (“a place where manufacturing takes place”) apparently influenced strongly by association with Classical Latin fact-, the past participial stem of faciō (“to make”); compare manufactory and Latin factōrium (“an oil press”). In noun sense 8 (“a trading establishment”), originally after Portuguese feitoria. In noun sense 9 (“an invoice or inventory”), probably after obsolete Dutch facture (“bill”); see facture. Compare Dutch factorij, Middle French factorie, Spanish factoría.
Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.
Where this word comes from
Probably from factor + -y, although in noun sense 1 (“a place where manufacturing takes place”) apparently influenced strongly by association with Classical Latin fact-, the past participial stem of faciō (“to make”); compare manufactory and Latin factōrium (“an oil press”). In noun sense 8 (“a trading establishment”), originally after Portuguese feitoria. In noun sense 9 (“an invoice or inventory”), probably after obsolete Dutch facture (“bill”); see facture. Compare Dutch factorij, Middle French factorie, Spanish factoría.
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