factory
/ˈfæktəɹi/
noun
- 1
A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
- 2
The position or state of being a factor.
- 3
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
- 4
A device which produces or manufactures something.
- 5
A factory farm.
“chicken factory; pig factory”
- 6
In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- 7
A police station.
adjective
- 1
(of a configuration, part, etc.) 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.”
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