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manufactured, ppl. a.|mænjuːˈfæktjʊəd|
[f. manufacture v. + -ed1.]
1. Fabricated from raw material.
1680W. Love in Deb. Parlt. (1681) 68 And it cannot be expected, that the Indians should grow weary, of exchanging their Manufactured Goods for our Gold and Silver. 1776Adam Smith W.N. iv. ix. (1869) II. 263 A trading and manufacturing country naturally purchases with a small part of its manufactured produce, a great part of the rude produce of other countries. 1885Athenæum 17 Oct. 500/2 [The] age..brings manufactured articles to every man's door.
2. Fraudulently invented or brought into existence.
1866Totnes Elect. Comm., Min. Evid. (1867) 77 They were manufactured votes. 1903Daily Chron. 24 Feb. 5/5 A more manufactured and baseless claim was never set up. |