automobile factory
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈɔːtəməˌbiːl ˈfæktəri/
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fábrica de automóviles
- Visiting the automobile factory gave us a look at how cars are made from start to finish.
Examples
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A shuttered automobile factory scars the distant shore.
Fiction book (1991) -
In the second category would be another 50 enterprises, including automobile factories, in urgent need of modernization.
Academic text (1991) -
An automobile factory lends itself to technology much more than an insurance agency.
Blog text (34) -
I could suggest that this is where more jobs will be created in a way that Ford created a lot of jobs by the automobile factory line.
Blog text (1) -
They cannot support conventional automobile factories.
Academic text (1999) -
"The ball goes up and with it the same kind of robotic cabling that you see in automobile factories.
Blog text (3) -
Only in very limited areas (notably the recent establishment of automobile factories) has Egypt hosted multinational enterprises where production is based on foreign conception and planning.
Academic text (1999) -
By 1904, Pope Manufacturing Company, once the country's most successful bicycle maker, operated sixteen automobile factories (Harmond 250-51; "New Automobile").
Academic text (2012) -
Many workers are employed at the local automobile factory, where they assemble cars every day.
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The automobile factory produces thousands of vehicles each month to meet consumer demand.
Synonyms
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3.2
A factory where parts are put together to make a product
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1.0
A place where cars are made
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A factory that makes cars
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Morphology
The meaning 'a factory where automobiles are manufactured' is directly and compositionally derived from 'automobile' (a powered vehicle) + 'factory' (a place for producing items). This noun+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern (e.g., fábrica de automóviles, usine d'automobiles) and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Automobile factory comes from the simple, literal idea of its parts: automobile means a car and factory means a place where things are made. In early car production whole vehicles moved along a long line while workers added parts one by one, so the phrase now simply means 'a factory where cars are made'.