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manufactory

manufactory

1 9.2
A large building where people make things, like a factory
  • noun
  • /ˌmænəˈfæktəri/
  • Archaic
translation icon : fábrica
  • Each day, workers at the manufactory assemble parts into finished products for global distribution.
  • porcelain manufactory
  • a royal manufactory
  • paper manufactory

Examples

  • The undertaker of a great manufactory is sometimes alarmed if another work of the same kind is established within twenty miles of him.

    Academic text (1992)
  • "He came here with nothing, a suitcase, and built a bankrupt company into a major manufactory."

  • The trustees also refused to give up on the public garden or their dream of turning Georgia into a silk manufactory.

    Academic text (2009)
  • New mines, new mills, new manufactories, all have all been built outside the old parishes.

  • These included The New Haven Shirt Manufactory in Connecticut and Hutchinson, Pierce and Co. in Norwalk and Bridgeport, Connecticut.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Of the number of persons employed in the cotton manufactories in Great Britain, it is computed that nearly 4/7 are women and children; of whom the greatest proportion are children, and many of them are of a tender age.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Later reforms refined its administrative practice and theoretical basis and incorporated with it a number of privileged manufactories producing furnishings for royal residences.

    Academic text (1996)
  • By 1860, Macon had five companies for making machinery and eighty-three other manufactories, located far from the later fighting but with direct railroad and some water access to much of the eastern Confederacy.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Other manufactories in the city made the heavy castings, medicines, tents, enameled cloth, matches, buttons, wire, soap, shoes, and seemingly anything else needed to equip an entire army.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The manufactory produces thousands of toys every year, supplying stores across the country.

Synonyms

factory
vsmanufactory
869 1.0

A building where people make goods using machines

is the same meaning but appears as a different traditional word form
mill
vsmanufactory
171 2.3

A building where things are made or raw materials are processed

focuses on places for large scale production rather than just raw processing
works
vsmanufactory
  • UK
40 3.9

A large place with buildings and machines where materials are made or treated

is specific to places that make goods rather than any large scale operation
manufacturing plant
vsmanufactory
12 3.2

A large factory where goods are made using machines

is the general name for such places rather than a specific facility label
industrial plant
vsmanufactory
2 3.5

A group of buildings where goods are made with machines

is focused on places for making goods specifically rather than all large scale work

How Big

plant
981 4.8
manufactory
  • Archaic
1 9.2
workshop
61 2.3

Surface Forms

manufactory singular
manufactories plural

Morphology

manufactory = manufacture (transparent) = manufacture + ory

The word is directly formed from 'manufacture' + the place-forming suffix '-ory', so its meaning 'place where manufacturing occurs' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Manufactory comes from two parts: manu- meaning 'hand' and -factory meaning 'to make', and manu- is the same root you see in manual. So a manufactory was originally a place where things were 'made by hand', which is why it means a place where goods are made.