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manufacturer|mænjuːˈfæktjʊərə(r)|
[f. manufacture v. + -er1. Cf. F. manufacturier.]
†1. An artificer, an operative in a manufactory.
1719W. Wood Surv. Trade 312 Those who differ from the Established Church are generally of the lowest Rank, Mechanicks, Artificers and Manufacturers. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. x. i. (1869) I. 107 The wages of mechanics, artificers, and manufacturers should be somewhat higher than those of common labourers. 1812Gen. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 38 The distresses which had driven the poor manufacturers [of Nottingham] to acts of outrage. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. (1858) I. 433 A shilling a day was the pay to which the English manufacturer then [in 1680] thought himself entitled.
2. One who employs workmen for manufacturing; the owner of a manufactory.
1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) II. 95 A manufacturer reckons upon the labour of his servants. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xiii. (ed. 3) 121 The magnitude of the order made it worth his while to turn manufacturer. 1901Daily News 22 Mar. 3/2 It is the duty of a manufacturer to charge the highest price he can get.
b. With qualifying word, as cloth manufacturer, flannel manufacturer.
1842J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 120 John Nussey, cloth manufacturer, Birstal, Yorkshire... Jacob Tweedale, flannel manufacturer, Rochdale.
3. transf. and fig.
1802J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metr. Rom. I. p. cix, In what manner this ingenious editour conducted himself in this patch'd up publication wil be evident from the following parallel, which may be useful to future manufacturers in this line. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Napoleon Wks. (Bohn) I. 378 The men of letters he slighted; ‘they were manufacturers of phrases’.
Hence manuˈfacturess, a female manufacturer, or the wife of a manufacturer. Also fig.
1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 657 ‘Buildresses of the lofty rhyme’, or manufacturesses of fancy goods in verse. 1881M. A. Lewis Two Pretty G. III. 14 A good-humoured homely body, as far as possible removed from the typical rich manufacturess. |