production line
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- noun
- /prəˈdʌkʃən laɪn/
- Specialized
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línea de producción
- Here on the production line, engineers and technicians surround the first 787s.
- production lines in factories
- production line workers
- mass production line
Wasn't it a statistic that Henry Ford's became the richest man in America five years after he perfected the production line process?
- Wasn't it a statistic that Henry Ford's became the richest man in America five years after he perfected the production line process?
- I've hired former gang members at one point, the staff at Quest, literally I had Bloods and Crips working the same production line.
- And when they start sewing the garment, the final production run, they will ship you the first one off the off the line, the production line.
- We are already hiring for you know, additional shifts at our production plant and, and designing, you know, additional production line and stuff like that.
- Now it's very skilled to make a car from scratch, but it's not very skilled to work on a production line.
Examples
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We can still see the moving production line, but the technologies and products have changed significantly.
Academic text (2012) -
The production line's been retooled to make military versions of the helmet.
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By October, the entire production line was down.
Academic text (2011) -
And part of the mass production idea was never stop the production line, always keep it moving, always keep producing.
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Like it was built in a factory, on a production line.
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But the first six aircraft rolling off the production line are now ready to begin a long and intensive test flight program.
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Fenders, wheels, and engines, stored as inventory, go into the production line, and a finished automobile comes out.
Academic text (2012) -
Beth DeSenza was a production line worker at a large garment factory just outside the city.
Fiction book (1995) -
Just as Ford implemented a moving production line, automobile manufacturing revolutionized the production process in the early 1900s.
Academic text (2012) -
The factory's production line operates efficiently to meet high demand for smartphones.
Synonyms
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A company or service that moves people and goods
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A factory system where a product moves past workers who add parts
A factory system where products move without stopping between machines for assembly
Antonyms
How Industrial
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- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a series of machines and workers...' is directly and compositionally derived from 'production' (manufacturing) plus 'line' (a row/sequence/place where an activity occurs), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to the line where production happens. This construction and sense are cross-linguistically common (e.g., 'línea de producción'), supporting immediate comprehension.
Etymology
Production line comes from factories where products move along a straight line and each worker or machine does one small job. That's why the phrase now means a 'series of people and machines' that work step by step to make a product.