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Definition of Factory
Factory

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.

A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.

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Factory Quotations

The house is a factory.
Dave Eggers

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
Charles Evans Hughes

Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.
Steven Wright

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
Thomas Huxley

Factory Translations

factory in Afrikaans is fabriek
factory in Danish is fabrik
factory in Dutch is fabriek
factory in Finnish is tehdas
factory in French is fabrique, maison de commerce, usine
factory in German is Fabrik
factory in Italian is ditta, fabbrica
factory in Norwegian is fabrikk
factory in Swedish is fabrik


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