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fac·to·ry /ˈfæktəri/ ●●● S2 W2 noun (plural factories) [countableC]  
TIFa building or group of buildings in which goods are produced in large quantities, using machines 工厂，制造厂
 a car factory
汽车制造厂
 factory workers
工厂工人
n COLLOCATIONS
NOUN + factory
a car/textile/shoe etc factory
There is a large car factory where many of the local people work.
factory + NOUN
a factory worker
The factory workers are threatening to go on strike.
a factory owner
The factory owner placed a large order for some new equipment.
a factory manager
He held the position of factory manager.
a factory inspector (=an official whose job is to check that laws or rules related to factories are being obeyed)
Factory inspectors reported that safety precautions had been ignored.
the factory gates (=the entrance to a factory)
A crowd of protesters had gathered outside the factory gates.
verbs
open a factory
The company has just opened a new factory in Swindon.
close/shut (down) a factory
The factory was closed down in 2006.
work in a factory
Donna works in a shoe factory.
a factory produces/makes something
The factory produces an incredible 100 cars per hour.
n THESAURUS
factory a building or group of buildings in which goods are produced in large quantities, using machines
She works in a chocolate factory.
a clothing factory
plant a large factory where cars, chemicals, or energy is produced
Local residents are protesting about the new nuclear power plant.
a car plant
a nuclear power plant
facility a factory. Facility is often used instead of factory in business English
The new production facility is one of the most up-to-date in the area.
works used in the following compounds to describe a factory that produces a particular thing: a steelworks/ironworks/brickworks/a chemical/cement works/a printing works
mill a factory that produces paper, cotton, or cloth
a paper mill
The textile mill has been converted into luxury flats.
shipyard a place where ships are built or repaired
The vessel was built in the Kobe shipyard.
foundry a factory where metal is made into things using moulds
Mandela’s statue was cast here in a local foundry.
sweatshop disapproving a small factory where people work hard in bad conditions for very little money
The company was fined for selling goods produced in sweatshops.
Examples from the Corpus
factory• Children used to have to work in dreadful conditions, in factories and mines.• In factories and at work, as well as communities and localities?• The lead factory on the outskirts of town is such a wreck that you don't know whether to laugh or cry.• Wharton-Tigar recalls quite well the sardine factory controlled by Reichmann and Hollander.• a shoe factory• Paradoxically, Soviet planners turned the primitive conditions and shortage of supplies at the factories to their advantage, Overy says.• After starting with a handful, the factory now employs 2,800 workers.• In the factories of bioengineering firms and in the chips of neural-net computers, the organic and the machine are merging.• Inputs from these sensor measurements are compared to factory yield and performance.
From Longman Business Dictionary
factoryfac·to·ry /ˈfæktəri/ noun (plural factories) [countableC]MANUFACTURING
a large building or group of buildings where goods are made, using large industrial machinery and usually employing many people
The owner wouldn’t comment on the factory’s future.
the textile factories of Catalonia
→ bonded factory
Origin factory
(1500-1600) Medieval Latin factoria, from Latin factor; → FACTOR1
fac·to·ry noun →n COLLOCATIONS1 →n THESAURUS1
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