Meaning & use
Factories
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Buildings or complexes of buildings equipped with machinery for manufacturing goods on a large scale.
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The new factories on the edge of town employ hundreds of local workers.
Textile factories sprang up across the region during the Industrial Revolution.
A note on using this word
The word traces to the Latin factorium, a place where things are made; it entered English through the trading posts, also called 'factories,' that merchants once established overseas.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
Historically, a trading post established by merchants in a foreign country.
The East India Company maintained factories along the Indian coast.
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