Definition of Factory

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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

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

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Steven Wright

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

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Warren G. Bennis

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
Ellen DeGeneres

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
W. H. Auden

I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.
Denzel Washington

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

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.
Cary Grant

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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