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n. A building or group of buildings in which goods are manufactured; a plant.

n. A vessel in which newly caught seafood is prepared for shipment and sale: a floating fish factory.

n. A business establishment for commercial agents or factors in a foreign country.

n. The source of prolific production: a rock group that was a hit-tune factory; a motel that served as an illegal drug factory.

n. A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

n. The position or state of being a factor.

n. A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

n. A device which produces or manufactures something.

n. In a computer program or library, a function or method which creates an object.

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

n. The body of factors in any place.

n. 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.

n. An establishment of merchants and factors resident in a foreign place, formed for mutual protection and advantage, usually occupying special quarters under their own control, and sometimes having fortified posts and depots.

n. A body of factors; the association of persons in a factorial establishment.

n. The employment or authority of a factor; power to act as a factor.

n. A building or group of buildings appropriated to the manufacture of goods, including the machinery necessary to produce the goods, and the engine or other power by which such machinery is propelled; the place where workers are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils: as, a cotton factory.

n. Manufacture; making.

n. a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

"He said the ­factory twice received phone calls from the Israeli military telling them to evacuate the building in the days before the strike, but the factory was not used by Hamas or other Palestinian fighters."

plant    industrial plant    works   

factory acts    factory cotton   

fashion    fact    faction    factorial    factor   

chemical plant    steel mill    cannery    car factory    sawmill    textile mill    stamping mill    stamp mill    lumbermill    metalworks   

factory reset   

manufactory    workshop    shop    officina    works    mint    hattery    pottery    bloomery    bakery   

olfactory    refractory    satisfactory    unsatisfactory   

mill    shop    building    manufacture    farm    warehouse    industry    manufacturer    hospital    plant