factory

About 20.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

   History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.

2. noun A police station.
3. noun A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
4. noun A factory farm.

   chicken factory; pig factory

5. noun In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
6. noun The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.

   factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset

7. noun The position or state of being a factor.
8. noun A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

Similar words

manufactory mill manufacturing plant works workshop manufacturer industrial shop manufacture manufacturing

Often followed by

in and workers at was system or is to

Word family

factories factorylike