Meaning & use
Fabricator
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A person or company that manufactures or constructs something, especially machinery or metal structures.
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The steel fabricator custom-built the bridge's support beams.
She hired a local fabricator to weld the custom exhaust system.
A note on using this word
Fabricator can also mean someone who invents lies or false stories, a sense drawn from the same Latin root 'fabricare,' meaning to construct or devise.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A person who invents or makes up false stories or lies.
The journalist was exposed as a fabricator of quotes.
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