Meaning & use
manufacture
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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