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manufactory

[man-yuh-fak-tuh-ree] / ˌmæn jəˈfæk tə ri /


NOUN
mill
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His manufactory was renamed The Stanley Works, and over the next century it boomed, employing 5,000 people in and around New Britain and helping to give it the nickname “Hardware City.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

He created the 11 porcelain disks at France’s famed Sèvres manufactory, and they have never been shown publicly before.

From New York Times Apr. 27, 2022

Visiting a watch manufactory is a soothing experience during chaotic times, and the painfully slow assembly of these beautiful objects may well fall under the heading of “God’s work.”

From The New Yorker Mar. 13, 2017

The tax likely will top the agenda when Mr. Trump meets Thursday with executives from top U.S. manufactory firms.

From Washington Times Feb. 22, 2017

Peter entered the iron gates, and was turning to the left to the manufactory, when he saw Mr. Arkell at the dining-room window; so he went across to the house.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood

In August 1865 James wrote a letter to the Congregationalist urging Northerners to come South “to purchase lands, open stores, start manufactories, or newspapers, or schools, or churches” for the betterment of the country.

From Slate Nov. 8, 2017

Hanging in the middle of these drawings are gilded frames holding Bronstein’s watercolors of then-popular porcelain manufactories.

From Architectural Digest Apr. 16, 2015

"The erection of manufactories in the Colonies tends to lessen their dependence on Great Britain," reads a House of Commons resolution.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Turkish .government operates power plants, railroads, ports, communications, sugar, salt and tobacco manufactories, oil, steel & coal enterprises ; it dominates shipping and banking.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had seen forges, ironworks, manufactories in her own world; the biggest seemed like a village smithy beside this.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman




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