factory floor

ˌfactory ˈfloor noun

the factory floor

a) the area in a factory where goods are made 厂房，车间

b) the ordinary workers in a factory, rather than the managers 车间工人

on the factory floor

There’s been a lot of talk on the factory floor (=among the ordinary workers) about more layoffs.

车间工人议论纷纷，说还会有更多的裁员。

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on the factory floor• Down on the factory floor, automatic control had the expected virtue of moderating high-powered energy sources as mentioned earlier.• The unions had almost no influence on the factory floor and were ineffective in collective bargaining.• With his revolutionary production line process Henry reduced his workers to being merely the most sophisticated machines on the factory floor.• The roof of things has fallen in - these paprika patches on the factory floor are corrugated remnants of protective tin.• But socialism was doomed unless power remained on the factory floor and flowed upwards, rather than downwards.• They'd rather sit on the factory floor and eat their snap, without even washing their hands.• There's been a lot of talk on the factory floor about more layoffs in the spring.

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factory floor• Rumors swept up from the factory floor and lofted back down again from the cubicles of middle management.• He moved off the factory floor and into management with the same manufacturing firm.• Down on the factory floor, automatic control had the expected virtue of moderating high-powered energy sources as mentioned earlier.• But socialism was doomed unless power remained on the factory floor and flowed upwards, rather than downwards.• Components were stacked in piles all over the factory floor like the contents of an attic.• They went through a series of corridors until they reached the factory floor.• Such an agreement, however, has clearer links with the factory floor than the consulting room.

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