Meaning & use

manufacture

verb·Academic

To make goods on a large scale using machinery, typically inside a factory.

See it in a sentence

The plant manufactures several thousand car parts every single day.

This small company manufactures furniture from sustainably sourced local wood.

A note on using this word

Manufacture can also mean to invent something false, as in manufacturing an excuse or evidence.

Words with a similar meaning

producefabricate

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Another way to use it

2. verb

To invent or fabricate something, such as an excuse or evidence, in a deceptive way.

Investigators discovered that the witness had manufactured evidence against the defendant.

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