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Synonyms for factories

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fak-tuh-ree, -tree
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæk tə ri, -tri

Top 10 synonyms for factories
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Définition of factories

Origin :
  • 1550s, "estate manager's office," from Middle French factorie, from Late Latin factorium "office for agents (factors)," also "oil press, mill," from Latin factor "doer, maker" (see factor (n.)). Sense of "building for making goods" is first attested 1610s. Factory farm attested from 1890.
  • noun manufacturing plant
Example sentences :
  • They had forced the foreign immigrants to work in their factories.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • No factories can be built if no one wants the things that would be manufactured in them.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • The day's work was over, and the factories were all locked up for the night.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • All this time we have been talking of aeroplanes, factories, and money.
  • Extract from : « Monday or Tuesday » by Virginia Woolf
  • Reports were read of visits to factories, shops, slums, and dockyards.
  • Extract from : « Monday or Tuesday » by Virginia Woolf
  • But on Sundays the factories do not work, and the district then falls into death-like silence.
  • Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
  • Why, in the direction of public works and in the building of factories.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • Pass the bill, and factories will jump out of the ground like mushrooms.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • The number of factories of all sorts in the country is estimated at about one hundred.
  • Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • What care you for the din of factories or the clanking hammers of the foundries?
  • Extract from : « Arthur O'Leary » by Charles James Lever
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