abandoned factory
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- noun
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fábrica abandonada
- A run-down abandoned factory.
- abandoned factory and warehouse
- abandoned factory—looked eerily empty
- lot of an abandoned factory
Examples
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They stay out of, you know, abandoned factories and malls and other places where they tend to get in trouble.
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Closer here, ramshackle structures, a long-abandoned factory of some kind.
Fiction book (1993) -
And then I moved to an abandoned factory.
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I showed them an abandoned factory.
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The abandoned factory on Garner.
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The Mau-Mau Mobile rolls up to an abandoned factory.
Fiction book (2000) -
I would make the tapes in my abandoned factory, get off in Grand Central, jump the turnstile, and then just go around giving out tapes.
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See the abandoned factories?
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The thousands of empty houses, vacant commercial buildings, and abandoned factories in older industrial cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, or Cleveland tell a story of what once was.
Blog text (15) -
The New York Fire Department is battling a tremendous blaze in a long-abandoned factory on the East River.
Synonyms
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A building that people no longer use or live in
Antonyms
How Active
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a factory building that is no longer in use' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'abandoned' (left vacant or deserted) with 'factory' (a manufacturing building). This adjective + noun compositional pattern is common across languages and follows standard English modification rules, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Abandoned factory makes you think of a factory with machines covered in dust, broken windows, and no workers, as if everyone has left. That's why abandoned and factory together mean 'no longer in use and deserted'.