factoryn.
/ˈfakt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈfækt(ə)ri/ 1. Chiefly Scottish.† b. A document investing a person with the authority of a factor or agent. Obsolete.
a. The employment, office, or position of a factor (cf. esp. factor n. 3a, 3b); the authority to act as a factor for another; factorship. Now rare except in judicial factory n. at judicial adj. and n. Compounds.† letter of factory: = sense 1b (obsolete).Quots. 1640, a1698 had been interpreted by N.E.D. (1894) as showing sense 1b, but it seems more likely they belong here; sense 1b is not given in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Factorie.
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society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > [noun] > management on behalf of another or stewardship
bailliec1305
bailieshipc1375
dispensingc1380
dispensationc1384
dispending1388
procuracya1425
procuration1484
umboth1509
stewardship1526
proctorship1535
stewarding1548
bailiwick1550
farmership1551
factory1560
agency1600
bailiffwick1605
agentship1608
factorage1639
proctorage1641
oeconomacy1651
soliciting1663
stewartrya1763
factordom1888
society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one who acts for another > position of
factorshipc1550
factory1560
agentry1590
factoryship1836
1560 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 398 No disposition of factorie shall be made by [= contrary to] his advice.
1562 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 340 Ane letter of factorie, to intromet with the mailes, fermes, and dewtice [etc.].
c1566 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. (1848) II. 298 The Erle of Arrane was discharged of Sanctandrois and Dunfermeling, whairwith befoir, be verteu of a factorie, he had intromitted.
1594 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1816) IV. 64/1 Diuerss personis..In defraud of his hienes..hes maid dyuerss..giftes of pensionis, lettres of factorie, [etc.].
1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 35 The Merchant Royall..comes to his Profession by travaile and Factory.
1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 18 Dec. (1855) 134 The factorie granted be Gilbert Browne of Bagbie to Johne Browne, merchand.
?1662 D. S. To All Clothiers of Eng. 5 Factory, or Broakery in it self being no Trade, are not Subject to any Rules or Regulations of perticular Societies.
c1695 Burnett Family Papers in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Factorie The letters of factorie granted to me.
a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xii. 380 He..gaue a factorie to his son-in-law, to go over with Forther and agent that business.
1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. Nov. 555/2 He..accepted the factory of the estate.
1869 Act 32 & 33 Victoria c. 116 §3 A conveyance..for the purposes of such estate or trust, or factory.
1898 A. Wedderburn Wedderburn Bk. I. iii. 226 (note) He was at home 8 Feb. 1703, when his brother John gave him a factory.
1908 Scots Digest Scots Appeals 1 149 A party acting under a factory which exempted him from liability.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun] > basis of testimony, authority > something confirming
token1538
factory1703
society > law > legal document > types of legal or official document > [noun] > document giving legal authority > specific
brevea1400
letter of procuracya1425
procuracy1425
letter of attorney1432
allocate1438
procurationc1450
proxyc1460
warrant of attorney1512
letters of procuration1574
promotorial letters?c1633
factory1703
power of agency1710
power of attorney1716
inspectorship deed1861
letter of business1862
1703 J. Gordon Diary 6 Aug. (1949) 126 On the 6th I subscrybed a factory to Mr Ro: Jameson to act for me in Scotland.
1717 G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (1911) 49 For stamp paper to write Turnbuls Factory.
1733 in H. Hamilton Select. Monymusk Papers (1945) 209 Ane factorie signed by the said Sir Archibald Grant.
1790 J. Boswell Let. 16 Dec. (1924) II. 477 Enclosed is a factory to you to receive my rents.
2. † b. The body of traders at such a trading post. Obsolete.
a. An establishment for traders carrying on business, especially in a foreign country; a merchant company's trading station; a trading post. Now historical.black trader factory: see black adj. and n. Compounds 1e.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > place authorized for foreign merchants
factory1582
staple1617
emporium1727
treaty-port1863
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias xxi. 54 b To the intent hee might remaine in the Factorye [Port. feitoria] with the Factour.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vii. vii. §3. 573 Here [at Sofala] the Portugals haue..a Fort and Factorie of very rich Trade.
1682 London Gaz. No. 1692/1 The total subversion of their Factory at Amoy.
1701 Charter Soc. for Propagation of Gospel 1 We are..Informed, That in many of Our Plantations, Colonies and Factories beyond the Seas..the Provision for Ministers is very Mean.
1772 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 184 He is Chaplain to the British Factory at St. Petersburg.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 84 Vancouver..the main factory of the Hudson's Bay Company.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 409 Long before..the Hanse..fixed their factories in Lisbon.
1877 J. R. Bartlett West Coast Afr. (U.S. Hydrographic Office) III. ii. 56 The Portuguese..have factories extending a long distance up the small river.
1929 D. Carruthers Desert Route to India Introd. p. xxvi The East India Company did not even found its permanent Factory at Basra till 1730–40.
2009 A. Cotterell Western Power in Asia ii. 79 Siraj-ud-daula seized the English factory at Kasimbazar and imprisoned its occupants.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > staff of trading post
factory1633
1633 C. Farewell East-India Colation 38 I left him; and..in company with our Factorie went ashore to Surat.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant vi. 18 The three Statues were..sent..by the French Factory [Fr. par la Nation Françoise] to Paris.
1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal cxxv I feasted..with the consul and factory.
1802 J. Adolphus Hist. Eng. I. xi. 278 The factory, deeming their present situation untenable, crossed the Ganges.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > invoice or bill
bill1420
invoice1560
factory1615
invoy1617
facture1668
Williamc1859
check1868
price tab1886
tag1968
1615 L. Antheuniss Let. 27 Aug. in W. Foster Lett. received by E. India Co. (1899) III. 156 A short factory of goods sent to Janggamay.., collected into this brief as followeth:..41 pieces Dubeties gouzerams... 12 3 1.
1678 J. Vernon Compl. Compting-house 43 The manner of using this Factory-Book is thus: As soon as you have any Factory, or Invoice of Goods, for any Friend beyond the Seas, go you immediately and enter the Factory and Contents of it, word for word as it stands.
1719 in M. Clare Youth's Introd. Trade & Business (1720) 82 Factory of the Cost and Charges of One hundred Barrels of Anchovies.
1737 in Gen. Shop Bk. (1753) at Invoice Invoice or factory of four bales of woollen cloth, and two packs of linen.
1764 in A. Birks & J. Birks Arithm. Coll. & Improvem. (1766) ii. 410 Invoice, or factory of 10 pieces of Holland..on board the Josias.
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a. A building or range of buildings with plant for the manufacture or assembly of goods or for the processing of substances or materials. Cf. manufactory n. 2a.bicycle, bomb, cigarette, gun, locomotive, margarine, paper, reclaiming, rope, rum, sardine, spinning, weaving factory, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > place of production or creation
shop1517
workhouse?1533
workshop1561
childbed1568
factory1618
laboratory1654
elaboratory1667
hotbed1693
mill1771
society > occupation and work > workplace > factory > [noun]
mill1403
work1581
factory1618
manufacture1623
manuary1625
manufactory1641
fabric1656
hong1726
plant1789
machinery1799
usine1858
oficina1889
officina1906
1618 J. Ussher Let. 8 June in W. Camden Epist. (1691) 238 The Company of Stationers in London are now erecting a Factory for Books, and a Press among us here.
1705 L. Crommelin Ess. Improving Hempen & Flaxen Manuf. iii. 23 A few People..would come..to us at our Factory in Lisnegarvy, and learn of our Flax-men how to manage and raise Hemp and Flax.
1757 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 48/2 Mr. Henry Delamaine, proprietor of the factory for earthen ware.
1790 J. Harvie Let. 12 July in T. Jefferson Papers (1965) XVII. 24/1 (note) They have Established..a factory of Sheet Lead and Shott.
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 307 The spacious factory of the manufacturer.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xlvi. 54 A factory planted among fields withered the space about it, like a burning mountain.
1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 63 Somebody must settle whether the factory is to work for..ten..or eight hours a day.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 25 Oct. 2/2 The Hammersmith Vestry has been persuaded to serve notices for the abatement of the smoke-nuisance upon seven factories.
1906 Cosmopolitan 41 677/2 The children compelled to conditions of harsh servitude in the factories and mills.
1948 N. Cassady Let. 8 Jan. (2005) 75 The only thing that didn't come with the car when it left the factory..is the license plate.
2007 Daily Tel. 6 Nov. 15/4 They evacuated the factory as soon as the fire was discovered.
b. Australian slang. A prison or detention centre for women, esp. that at Parramatta, New South Wales, where cloth was manufactured by inmates. Also more fully female factory. Now historical.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]
quarternOE
prisona1200
jailc1275
lodgec1290
galleya1300
chartrea1325
ward1338
keepingc1384
prison-house1419
lying-house1423
javel1483
tollbooth1488
kidcotec1515
clinkc1530
warding-place1571
the hangman's budget1589
Newgate1592
gehenna1594
Lob's pound1597
caperdewsie1599
footman's inn1604
cappadochio1607
pena1640
marshalsea1652
log-house1662
bastille1663
naskin1673
state prison1684
tronk1693
stone-doublet1694
iron or stone doublet1698
college1699
nask1699
quod1699
shop1699
black hole1707
start1735
coop1785
blockhouse1796
stone jug1796
calaboose1797
factory1806
bull-pen1809
steel1811
jigger1812
jug1815
kitty1825
rock pile1830
bughouse1842
zindan1844
model1845
black house1846
tench1850
mill1851
stir1851
hoppet1855
booby hatch1859
caboose1865
cooler1872
skookum house1873
chokey1874
gib1877
nick1882
choker1884
logs1888
booby house1894
big house1905
hoosegow1911
can1912
detention camp1916
pokey1919
slammer1952
joint1953
slam1960
1805 Sydney Gaz. 8 Dec. 1/4 Catharine Malone was accused..with riotous and disorderly behaviour..; for which she was ordered to work twelve months in the cloth factory at Parramatta.]
1806 Sydney Gaz. 13 July Catherine Eyres..ordered to the Factory at Parramatta for the term of six months.
1826 Austral. (Sydney) 5 Jan. 4/1 To the care of the lady of that delightful mansion, ycleped the ‘female factory’.
1874 M. Clarke His Nat. Life ii. iii. 91 In the factory—a prison for females—the vilest abuses were committed.
1913 J. C. L. Fitzpatrick Good Old Days of Molong 89 The ‘factory’ at Parramatta..was really a depot in which female prisoners were kept.
1930 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Ten Creeks Run v. 68 He was a man of money and consequence in the town, his wife his able partner, and it long since forgotten that one had had convict beginnings and the other supposed to have been born in the ‘Female Factory’ at Parramatta.
2008 J. Boyce Van Diemen's Land ii. 131 Few punishments [for female convicts] were legally available before the female factories were eventually constructed in the late 1820s and early 1830s.
c. British slang. A police station.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police office or station
police office1781
station1814
police station1820
factory1890
front office1900
cop-shop1941
law station1958
bear den1975
1890 F. W. Carew No. 747 xxxvi. 426 A stranger..whom a plain-clothes D. from the ‘Factory’ would most assuredly have catalogued as suspicious.
1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad 330 Factory, the police-station.
2011 L. Pye & J. Pye Price one Paid xxvii. 178 ‘Bring him in for questioning’, returned the inspector... ‘We'll talk back at the factory.’
5. figurative and in figurative contexts (in senses 2a, 4a); esp. a person, organization, etc., that produces great quantities of a specified thing.corpse, degree, Greek, knowledge, rumour, think factory, etc.: see the first element.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] > status
factory1618
churchdom1644
churchship1645
1618 T. Middleton Peace-maker sig. A4v Come then to the factory of peace, thou that desirest to haue life.
1626 J. Florio et al. tr. T. Boccalini New-found Politicke i. 9 Letters of assignation, signed by Homer, by Virgil, by Liuie..all of them principall and most eminent Merchants in the Factorie of Parnassus.
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 34 All those that seek to bear themselves uprightly in this their spiritual factory.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 21 Our corrupted hearts are the Factories of the Devil, which may be at work without his presence.
1700 W. Hamilton Disc. Conc. Zeal 9 Those Wretched Creatures..who set up Factories for Wickedness, and make Prostitution their Trade.
1791 Crit. Rev. Nov. 339 A more uniform tissue of vice and guilt..was scarcely ever before produced in the factories of democratical prejudice.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 76 Factory of river, and of rain; Link in the alps' globe-girding chain.
1899 25th Ann. Rep. Union Amer. Hebrew Congregations 3914 Too many of our Jewish congregations..see in our college nothing but a factory for the production of rabbis.
1921 Foreign Service July 6/2 This class of foreigners do not seek to plant in our midst the laboratories and factories of bolshevism and anarchy.
1960 R. Davies Voice from Attic v. 180 The scene is the Factory of Fun in the World of Waggery.
2003 A. Swofford Jarhead 244 We fire and fire the AKs, a factory of firepower.
2007 A. Brown tr. J.-F. Bayart Global Subj. i. 25 Karl Polanyi has..shown that liberalism rested on the ‘Utopia’ of the self-regulating worldwide market–that ‘Devil's factory’.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production
generationa1382
engenderinga1400
outbearinga1425
productionc1450
produce1562
prolation1577
procreation1578
generating1579
edition1605
producement1613
elaboration1617
flowering1634
pullulation1641
factory1664
development1794
output1841
output1887
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 193 These reasons..are far from satisfactory T' establish, and keep up your Factory.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 177 Gain has wonderful effects T'improve the Factory of Sects.
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C1. General attributive (in sense 1a). Somewhat rare.
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1641 Acts Second Parl. Edinb. 1640 (Wing S1168F) 54 The common burthens..owand, by bands, contracts,..factorie compts, or otherwayes.
a1715 A. Macghie Princ. Book-keeping (1718) ii. 32 While we are entring upon Factory-Accompts it's necessary we mention the chief Conditions agreed betwixt the Employer and his Factor.
1996 S. P.Walker in T. A. Lee Shaping Accountancy Profession i. 15 The majority of judicial factory engagements related to estates whose administration could not be performed by their owners due to reasons such as age or mental infirmity.
C2. In sense 2a.
a. General attributive.
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1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. Table Weights, Measures & Coins 7 Orixa and Bengal have the Puckah Weight, fully weighed..at 80 to 84 lb. to a Maund, but the English Factory Weight is but 75 lb.
1788 W. Wright in G. Craufurd Enq. Situation of East India Company (1789) 44 The Factory Charges at Canton are always added to the Goods Invoiced to Europe.
1831 in Papers relating to Affairs East India Company (1832) 60 The Hong Kong Merchants, who, with the Factory Compradore, shall be responsible for searching into what they do.
1877 J. R. Bartlett West Coast Afr. (U.S. Hydrographic Office) III. ii. 56 Laudano..is one of the largest factory stations on this part of the coast. It is..the market where all direct trade with the natives is transacted by the Portuguese.
1912 B. C. Allen Dacca Eastern Bengal District Gazetteers ii. 42 The original factory building seems to have been situated in Tezgāon.
1966 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 25 368/1 It represents considerable research into East India Company Factory Records.
2008 J. Heitzman City in South Asia iii. 105 A roughly quadrilateral brick fort..enclosed their factory headquarters.
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factory house n.
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1653 A. Woofe Tyranny of Dutch 15 We forthwith set a Red Crosse upon our Factory houses.
1764 Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 254 (The factory house) a strong building in the fort of Islamàbad cracked from top to bottom and tumbled down.
1804 Visct. Valentia Voy. (1809) I. vii. 372 The factory-house is a chaste piece of architecture.
1909 W. H. Koebel Portugal xix. 277 The most visible glory of the community is centred in the Factory House, or, as..it should..more accurately be termed the House of the British Association.
2010 Y. Sharma Coastal Hist. Introd. p. xl The second category of European establishments were their factory houses or commercial quarters located at all major ports and coastal regions, within the dominions of the Indian rulers.
C3. In sense 4.
a. General attributive.
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1803 Considerations Bill repealing Code of Laws Woollen Manuf. Great. Brit. 5 The number of looms to be kept by each Manufacturer; upon which..is known to depend that great question of the domestic or factory system of carrying on the trade.
1810 Maryland Gaz. 19 Dec. A road from Caleb Bently & Co. factory mills to intersect the Baltimore and Frederick-town turnpike road.
1850 Athenæum 7 Dec. 1282/3 A vast change must have come over the factory population.
1863 J. Hamilton Poems & Ess. 88 The factory wheels..Stand still.
1903 Jrnl.-Advance (Gentry, Arkansas) 27 Mar. 2 The factory canteen did a rushing business.
1919 E. E. Purinton Pract. Course Personal Efficiency ii. 5 He studied how to get inside the gate of the factory yard.
1952 Changing Times Dec. 40/1 Factory refresher courses and in-plant training will start thousands of Rosies out again in the skilled and semiskilled factory jobs.
1964 World Today June 254 Factory closures and suspended working are becoming common.
2000 C. Warren Brush with Death vi. 107 Company doctors..wielded increasing power over factory conditions.
b. attributive. Designating a bell, whistle, siren, etc., used to mark the beginning or end of a period of work at a factory, as factory bell, factory hooter, factory whistle, etc.
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1806 Lancaster Gaz. 8 Mar. (advt.) 1 factory bell; 2 clocks; several pairs of scales and weights.
1857 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 9 May 357/1 I walked wearily till noon, which the factory whistle announced with a disappointed yell.
1864 A. J. Evans Macaria xxii. 104 Afar off, and over all, was heard the measured music of factory bells, chanting a hymn to sacred and eternal Labor.
1882 Times 30 Dec. 4/5 People who..complain of the noise made by railway whistles and factory ‘hooters’.
1930 D. H. Lawrence Triumph of Machine (Ariel Poems No. 28) They will hear far, far away the last factory hooter.
1966 P. Bowles Up above World ix. 43 A factory siren wailed.
2012 P. C. Baldwin In Watches of Night iii. 34 The workday ended with the clang of factory bells or the bolting of store shutters, and workers were suddenly, thrillingly, freer than ever before.
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factory boy n.
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1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 70/2 A poet..can see ‘silver waves’ and majestic swans where the little dirty factory boys about him can discern nothing but a pond of water as black as ink.
1840 F. Trollope (title) Life and adventures of Michael Armstrong, the factory boy.
1906 Times 16 Feb. 10/4 A boys' club..for the use of the factory boys in the neighbourhood.
1960 G. Lamming Pleasures of Exile 218 The factory boy's anger expressed on bus or in the Tube, strikes them as uncouth.
2012 M. Pearl Technologists xix. 156 He remembered his freshman year, the whispers of ‘factory boy’ dogging him.
factory butter n.
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1866 New Hampsh. Statesman 20 July 4/2 As a general thing no coloring matter is used in factory butter.
1941 W. F. Finner & R. L. Mighell Trends Dairying by Major Type-of-farming Regions 9 Increases in factory-butter production were accompanied by decreases in farm-butter production in most regions.
2007 Econ. Jrnl. 117 1362 Creamery butter fetched 15% more than factory butter and 16% more than farmers' butter.
factory child n.
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1818 Morning Post 7 Apr. 2/3 The numbers relieved were of factory children thirty-three in two hundred and thirteen, [etc.].
1873 Harper's Mag. Aug. 322/1 They began an incessant agitation against the overlabor of factory children.
1922 A. M. Anderson Women in Factory v. 165 Whatever schooling a factory child had was given to it in the daytime.
2012 R. S. Alexander Europe's Uncertain Path 1814–1914 iii. 72 Laws passed in 1844..reduced the number of hours an older factory child could work to six and half per day.
factory chimney n.
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1821 New Times 18 Dec. 4/4 Three unfortunate people have lost their lives, by the falling of a factory chimney upon a cottage.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. ix. 131 She..looked towards the factory-chimneys, and the cloud of smoke which hovers over Manchester.
1933 V. Sackville-West Let. 31 Jan. in Lett. H. Nicolson (1966) 136 Factory-chimneys line the cliff.
2012 ‘Gentle Author’ Spitalfields Life 105/1 He spoke of pegging his own ladder to scale a factory chimney.
factory foreman n.
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1833 Repertory Patent Inventions 15 283 Uneducated workmen can, and do understand the design of the inventor, without any description, save a verbal one from the factory foreman.
1890 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 26 Feb. The real trouble is said to be the embezzlement of large sums of money by the firm's factory foreman.., who has not been seen since Friday.
1936 E. A. J. Johnson Some Origins Mod. Econ. World v. 106 Parish paupers of tender years provided the first large supply of docile minors who came under the despotic control of factory foremen.
2011 E. Speller Return of Captain John Emmett vii. 59 He'd been a factory foreman, somewhere in the Black Country, so actually he was quite good with the men—the ones he hadn't taken against.
factory girl n.
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1816 Rep. Minutes of Evid. Select Comm. Children in Manufactories 322 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 397) III. 235 We hear the words factory girl used as a term of degradation, as applied to an adult situation.
1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 300 There had recently been a strike of the factory girls.
1940 ‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 122 The idea is to give the bored factory-girl or worn-out mother of five a dream~life.
2005 Femina (S. Afr.) Feb. 72/1 Months as a factory girl, cutting those threads from finished garments, taught me patience and attention to detail.
factory hand n.
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1816 Rep. Minutes of Evid. Select Comm. Children in Manufactories 54 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 397) III. 235 With respect to observations on the out-door weavers, I am sure our factory hands are much better.
1898 G. Wallas Life Francis Place 879 The conception which fired the northern factory hands and pitmen..was that of a class solidarity depending primarily upon an identity of material interest.
1958 T. S. Hamerow Restoration, Revol., Reaction i. i. 18 The standard of living of the German factory hand was anything but high.
2008 Church Times 20 Mar. 56/3 In the recent experience of the farm labourer, miner, slave, factory hand, servant, death was ‘rest’.
factory inspector n.
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1833 Times 9 Sept. 3/1 Factory inspectors shall be locally unconnected with the district over which their superintendence is to extend.
1939 Engineering 18 Aug. 215/2 The Chief Inspector of Factories..was prepared to call together a committee representing makers of presses,..safety officers,..and factory inspectors.
2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians xiii. 154 The testimony of doctors and factory inspectors who have examined potters,..railwaymen, brick-makers.
factory lad n.
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1821 Times 1 Aug. 3/4 Common song tunes, such as are sung by factory lads in the street.
1919 A. E. Dobbs Educ. & Social Movements 1700–1850 ii. iv. 156 (note) The Royal Lancasterian Free School at Birmingham had an elementary class for factory lads three evenings a week.
1998 P. Brantlinger Reading Lesson v. 95 The factory lad may, by dint of hard work and honesty, become a mechanic with engineering know-how.
factory spinner n.
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1833 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 20 July 3/5 The Slaves in that island [sc. Jamaica] are infinitely happier, both in mind and person, than the laborers and factory spinners of this country.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 162 Roberts destroyed the factory spinner.
1995 M. J. Daunton Progress & Poverty vi. 188 Mechanized weaving was initially undertaken by factory spinners with experience of powered machinery.
factory system n.
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1803Factory system [see Compounds 3a].
1832 Rep. Comm. Bill to regulate Labour of Children 413 in Parl. Papers 1831–2 (H.C. 706 ) XV. 1 Will you state how you account for the melancholy result which you attribute to the factory system as at present conducted?
1847 Knickerbocker Mag. 30 512 Such shallow observers betray an entire ignorance of the factory system.
1909 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 19 164 England, the radically minded pioneer of the factory system.
2009 National Art Coll. Fund Rev. 2008–9 101/1 He developed an industrial empire and is now considered the father of the modern factory system.
factory town n.
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1832 Caledonian Mercury 25 Aug. A strike takes place in a factory town.
1881 Cent. Mag. Nov. 22/1 Noisy, dirty, and unpicturesque, as most factory towns are, there was little in it to inspire or foster artistic taste.
1978 Pop Mech. June 109/2 Saugus..was America's first factory town.
2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 July 29/3 Preston/Coketown was one of a dozen major factory towns in the huge conurbation centered on Manchester.
factory village n.
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1817 Christian Herald 8 Feb. 319 God has been pleased to come by his Holy Spirit into the Factory Village, so called, on the East Line of this town, and breathe spiritual life into many dead sinners.
1844 R. W. Emerson Poet in Ess. 2nd Ser. i. 20 Readers of poetry see the factory-village, and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these.
1906 New Eng. Mag. Oct. 54/1 The factory village..made the town prosperous by its woolen manufactures during wartimes.
1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 7 Dec. 36/4 The main aim of Port Sunlight's Heritage Centre..is to show how the prototype factory village has stoutly survived.
factory worker n.
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1818 Inq. Bill Restrictions on Cotton Factories 39 Whatever factory workers may care about Sunday schools, he is sure they care nothing at all about Sunday itself.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton Pref. p. vi The poor uneducated factory-workers of Manchester.
1937 Discovery Aug. 234/2 An unskilled factory worker.
2001 Collect It! Jan. 12/1 Many of the factory workers died of..lead poisoning.
factory world n.
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1833 Manch. Times & Gaz. 27 Apr. 2/5 I stand here for the first time in this metropolis of the factory world, to demand for the hundredth time that infant slavery shall be abolished.
1930 D. H. Lawrence Nettles 26 Hooked fishes of the factory world.
2010 P. Hessler Country Driving ii. 134 Smart Chinese women with little education often become accountants or secretaries, and from these positions they can rise in the factory world.
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factory owner n.
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1807 Leeds Mercury 25 July 2/3 When a Factory Owner, or a Man of large Property or Influence, appeared, he was all Candour, Complacency and Civility.
1851 Baird's Amer. Cotton Spinner 31 An error, though a rather common one amongst Factory owners.
1934 E. Pound Eleven New Cantos xxxiii. 13 That no factory-owner shall sit as a magistrate in cases concerning the spinning of cotton.
1997 Bangkok Post 26 Feb. i. 5/6 The workers marched..to the US embassy to ask that Cambodia not be granted special trading status unless factory owners respect workers rights.
factory-owning adj.
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1843 Morning Post 25 Nov. 4/6 Farmers are no more bound to feed an increasing population, than factory-owning conspirators are bound to clothe such a population.
1949 W. Lewis Let. 6 Aug. (1963) 502 The U.S. factory-owning class is very raw, arrogant, and ignorant.
1995 J. G. Carrier Gifts & Commodities ii. 47 With production in a central place, the factory-owning capitalist could physically observe and oversee work more closely than the merchant in the putting-out system.
e. Locative, as factory-built, factory-fitted, factory-installed, etc. See also factory-made adj. and n. at Compounds 4.
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1850 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 7 Nov. This expeditious system is likewise indispensable to compete with the factory spun cotton.
1908 Automobile Topics 18 Apr. 148 (advt.) The ACME Sextuplet. A factory-built car. With the accent on the ‘built’.
1921 Amer. Jrnl. Public Health 11 840 The introduction of factory-sealed food packages.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 9/2 (advt.) No matter what the size of your home, you can buy a Factory-Fitted Delco Oil Burner with an engineered oil burning capacity that exactly fits your requirements.
1953 Economist 9 May 381/1 The factory-built house in Britain initially proved dearer than houses built by traditional methods on site.
1967 Listener 5 Jan. 21/2 The bowls appear hand~crafted instead of factory-manufactured.
1988 G. Prater Snowshoeing (ed. 3) i. 12 At present, all models of Western snowshoes have factory-equipped bindings that are bolted or riveted to the snowshoe.
2001 Mich. Law Rev. 100 497 One of the officers noticed that the rear door vent of the car was held in place by pop rivets rather than the factory-installed screws.
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Factory Acts n. (also earlier Factories Acts) now chiefly historical the statutes 42 Geo. III. c. 73 (1802), 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 103 (1833), and various later acts, passed for the regulation of the working conditions of factory workers, especially women and children; (occasionally in singular) any one of these acts.
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1834 Courier (London) 7 Feb. A bill to amend a clerical error in the Factories Act, was brought in.
1845 Morning Chron. 4 Apr. 5/6 The principle of restricting the labour of children..has been sanctioned not only by the several Factories Acts..but by public opinion.
1863 Times 14 Dec. 9/2 The half-time system of the Factory Acts is for several reasons unadapted to the pottery trade.
1906 Fabian News 16 34/2 Neither Factory Acts nor Trade Unions existed to protect the workers.
1972 New Scientist 9 Mar. 533/2 Under section 78 of the Factories Act 1961, an inspector is empowered to take samples of dust or air.
2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians xiii. 153 The three Factory Acts of 1833, 1844 and 1847 restricted the working hours of women and children in some circumstances.
Factory Bill n. any of various legislative bills for the regulation of factories.Quot. 1802 refers to a trading post; see sense 2a.
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1802 Caledonian Mercury 15 Mar. 3/3 The Fort Marlborough factory bill was reported and ordered to be read a third time tomorrow.
1832 Rep. Comm. Bill to regulate Labour of Children 20 in Parl. Papers 1831–2 (H.C. 706 ) XV. 1 Since this Factory Bill has been agitated,..the children..have said..‘Will you get the Ten Hour Bill?’
1907 W. P. Watson Future of Japan ii. xxiii. 286 Japanese mills have been able to undercut the Indian in the Chinese and other markets, but the submission..of a first Factory Bill shows that this success has been bought at a price.
2005 I. St John Disraeli & Art Victorian Politics i. 19 They voted..for Lord Ashley's amendment to the Factory Bill.
factory cloth n. unbleached cotton cloth manufactured domestically rather than imported.
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1822 Rep. Commissioner of Inq. into Colony New S. Wales App. 178 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 448) XX. 539 2 suits factory cloth, 2s. 6d. per yard.
1873 ‘Josiah Allen's Wife’ My Opinions & Betsey Bobbet's 113 Merrymac calico and factory cloth.
1900 Improvem. Era Mar. 366 The caravan stopped to..see the workmen making factory cloth from home-raised cotton.
2002 R. E. Elson Suharto iii. 55 She helped out with family finances by retailing discounted factory cloth to the wives of soldiers.
factory cotton n. U.S. unbleached cotton cloth manufactured domestically, factory cloth.
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1816 Niles' Weekly Reg. 6 July 319/2 The arrival of..boats..laden with various sorts of merchandize, among which is mentioned ‘factory cotton’.
1916 N.A.R.D. Jrnl. 22 June 574/1 Strong, closely woven cloth such as factory cotton or sail-cloth.
2002 Vogue Dec. 80/1 My interpretation of it [sc. the dirndl skirt] featured factory cotton dyed orange.
factory farm n. (a) a farm operated by a trading post; cf. sense 2a (now historical); (b) originally U.S. a farm organized on industrial lines, engaged in factory farming.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > other farms
home farm1749
city farm1750
county farm1785
factory farm1824
bird farm1842
provision farm1846
spade-farm1848
bush-farm1851
poor farm1852
sewage farm1870
cacao farm1871
mixed farm1872
vertical farm1897
prison farm1961
nuplex1968
1824 W. Huggins Sketches India xix. 143 In managing zirrots or factory farms, a great number of hired ploughs and people are employed in the ploughing and weeding seasons.
1851 Vermont Chron. 23 Sept. 152/1 (heading) A factory farm... What may be done to render the practice of agriculture conformable to an exact and economic, and, it may be added, profitable, manufacture.
1890 A. Marshall Princ. Econ. I. iv. xi. 351 Our knowledge..would be much increased..if some private persons,..or co-operative associations, would make a few careful experiments of what have been called ‘Factory farms’.
1919 G. H. Lyman Story Mass. Comm. Public Safety v. iii. 335 In some cases factories established factory farms in order that supplies for their help might be produced near at hand.
1926 19th Cent. June 825 Factory-farms..can be multiplied or spread widely enough to affect the whole of British agriculture.
1972 H. Montefiore Doom or Deliverance? 18 Factory farms can cause pollution by their disposal of unwanted manure.
2013 D. Crosby Thou of Nature v. 85 A major factory farm that produces 4.5 million eggs each day for supermarkets.
factory-farm v. transitive to rear (livestock) by means of factory farming.
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1967 Country Life 2 Nov. 1116/1 At the other end of the scale, large farming companies are beginning to factory-farm their cows in herds of 250 or more.
1989 Christianity Today 22 Sept. 8/2 If Colson sat at my desk and saw some of the photographs of cruelties humans visit upon animals—including the 96 million we factory-farm and eat each week—he might be shocked.
2014 P. Lymbery Farmageddon Introd. 4 Some 70 billion farm animals are produced world-wide every year, two-thirds of them are now factory-farmed.
factory-farmed adj. produced or reared by means of factory farming.
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1950 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 30 Jan. 10/7 When the potato support-price mess was at its worst, for instance, more than one ‘farmer’ in Aroostook county, Maine, was getting above $500,000 annually from the government for his factory-farmed crop.
1989 M. W. Fox New Eden 20 The more meat we produce and consume, the more land is needed to raise feed for the incarcerated and drugged factory-farmed animals we consume.
2011 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 82/3 The refined palate rejects the taste of factory-farmed meat.
factory farmer n. originally U.S. a farmer engaged in factory farming.Quot. 1876 refers to a class of vassals in an imaginary society.
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1876 T. W. Collens Eden of Labor 144 Tributary Factory-Farmers, those who did not own, but paid rent for the whole or part of the factories they carried on, or for the machines they used.]
1895 9th Ann. Rep. State Dairy Commissisoner to Governor of Iowa 105 (table) Factory Farmers' Co-op.
1904 J. W. Streeter Fat of Land xxi. 128 It is not easy to overestimate the value of swine to the general farmer; but to the factory farmer they are indispensable.
1952 Economist 7 June 657/1 This so-called ‘160-acre limitation’..is still applied when new lands are irrigated, but factory farmers, particularly in Texas and California, have been trying..to get Congress to repeal it.
2012 L. Kemmerer Animals & World Relig. 300 Hens who die during forced molt are considered no loss whatsoever to the industry.., and factory farmers will quickly rid themselves of such birds in any case.
factory farming n. farming organized on industrial lines; spec. a system of rearing livestock using highly intensive methods, by which poultry, pigs, or cattle are confined indoors under strictly controlled conditions.
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1885 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 30 May 3/5 If factory farming proves itself to be the way out of difficulties which are driving the best class of men from the land, [etc.].
1904 J. W. Streeter Fat of Land xliii. 322 Intensive factory farming means the use of the best machines pushed to the limit of their capacity through the period of their greatest usefulness, and then replaced by others.
1964 New Statesman 30 Oct. 649/1 Boycott factory farm food?.. Boycott factory farmers?.. The essential thing is to amend the Protection of Animals Act (1911) to cover factory-farming techniques.
2003 C. J. Adams in H. Williams Ethics of Diet p. xi Some new arguments on behalf of vegetarianism have appeared, prompted by the emergence of factory farming and its horrific treatment of nonhumans.
factory floor n. the floor of a factory where goods are manufactured or assembled or materials are processed, esp. considered as the workplace of ordinary industrial workers, as opposed to the management, or as a forum for workers' meetings; (also) the workers in a company or industry considered collectively, as opposed to the management.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > factory > [noun] > factory floor
factory floor1830
shop floor1898
1830 Ann Reg. 1829 314/2 The witness found a quantity of matches on the factory floor.
1846 E. Jones Better Hope in Northern Star 5 Sept. 3/1 And fibre and flesh he bound down on a rack, Flame-girt on a factory-floor; And the ghastly steel corse—plied its horrible force, Still tearing the hearts of the poor.
1910 R. W. Child Jim Hands vii. 78 None of us ever expected more of him than to hear his joking and breakdowns on the factory floor.
1948 Jrnl. Instit. Production Engineers 27 641 Mr. H. S. Hull (London), responding to the invitation for comments from the factory floor, said [etc.].
1968 Listener 30 May 692/2 The militant workers on the factory floor have been voting to continue the strike.
1971 P. Worsthorne Socialist Myth 252 Factory-floor agitation..is one of the few active pleasures which an industrial society provides for its less well-endowed members.
2008 Congress. Rec. 11 Dec. 24750/3 The factory floor went to war.
factory-fresh adj. newly manufactured or produced, as if coming straight from the factory; brand new; pristine.
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1931 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 27 Apr. 7/4 (advt.) Factory-fresh Camels are air-sealed in the new Sanitary Package which keeps the dust and germs out.
1956 V. E. Yarsley & E. G. Couzens Plastics in Service of Man 133 The tools thus arrived at their destination in factory-fresh condition.
2001 Which Kit? May 96/2 Overall, the condition of the body panels looks factory-fresh.
factory gate n. the gate at the entrance of a factory, (in later use) often with reference to the price of goods at the end of the manufacturing process but before any additional costs or expenses have been added (frequently attributive).In quot. 1685 with reference to a trading post; cf. sense 2a.
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1685 N. Waite Let. 16 Sept. in Impartial Vindic. (East India Company) (1688) 34 The English and their Boats returned to the Factory Gate.
1847 Amer. Joe Miller 26 Judge Beeler put a notice over his factory gate at Lowell, ‘No cigars or Irishmen admitted within these walls;’ ‘for,’ said he, ‘the one will set a flame a-goin among my cottons, and t'other among my gals.’
1929 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 92 174 The Census of Production..estimated the value of the goods as they finally came into consumption by taking the value at the factory gate and adding an estimate of the services rendered.
1961 Times 22 Dec. 9/7 Since 1938, the British toy industry has increased the worth of toys produced from £500,000 to the present figure of £42m. This is the factory gate price, and does not include purchase tax.
1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) iv. iv. 410 The local activists..kept in touch with workers as they could, convening the occasional letuchka—an improvised gathering at the factory gate or in a corner of one of the shops.
2004 F. Lawrence Not on Label iii. 98 They now require suppliers to quote them a factory-gate price which excludes the cost of transport and they can then decided whether to collect in their own lorries or not.
factory-made adj. and n. (a) adj. made in a factory, especially as opposed to handmade; (b) n. a factory-made article.
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1841 Fleet Papers 4 Sept. 2 The wealth (the factory-made wealth) which that Sire bequeathed to him.
1878 Notts. Guardian 11 Oct. 1/6 For one lot of factory-made cheese 63s. was realised.
1904 Daily Chron. 28 Dec. 4/5 Cheapest line of factory-mades.
1939 S. Spender tr. E. Toller Pastor Hall iii. 102 I wear factory-made shoes nowadays. Not so beautiful and elegant as yours, but cheaper.
1968 M. Mothersole tr. G. Etienne Stud. Indian Agric. viii. 73 (note) Most clothes are factory made.
2007 C. Dragonwagon Cornbread Gospels iii. 83 Your tortillas might also be smaller..than the factory-mades.
factory man n. (a) a man who works for a trading post; cf. sense 2a (now historical); (b) a male factory worker.
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1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 163 Every Factory Man hath his Gun.
1821 Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1817 10 App. 56/1 Little Sam was put sentinel over one of the factory-men at the door leading into the casting-shop.
1879 S. C. Davidson in W. W. Hunter Stat. Acct. Assam II. 438 The leaf is then taken in hands by the factory men.
1919 Times 11 Nov. 13/2 A tremendous propaganda campaign..to urge factory men and women [in Russia] to join the Party..resulted in an increase of 6,101 members.
1958 H. Edson Sugar x. 130 When he appeared to be asking for technical advice from one of his factory men, he was merely..assessing the reliability of the employee.
1990 K. Lawrence Springs Living Water xiii. 267 An occasional unemployed factoryman, hands deep in his car coat pockets.
factory outlet n. originally and chiefly North American a shop in which goods are sold directly by the manufacturer, esp. one selling surplus or damaged stock at a discount; cf. outlet store n. at outlet n. Compounds 1.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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1902 Leader-Dispatch (Piqua, Ohio) 7 Aug. (advt.) Factory Outlet Sale.
1920 N.Y. Times 5 Nov. 8 (advt.) The Doll and Sons ‘Little Jewel’ Grand... Price most attractive—but little more than the Upright—and you buy direct from the factory outlet.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 Feb. There are factory outlets for the crystal and prices are attractive.
2011 P. Wellens in J. T. Wells Financial Statement Fraud Casebk. xxxi. 293 [The company] also had six factory outlets that sold products with small quality defects and heavily discounted merchandise from past seasons.
factory people n. (a) people who work for a trading post; cf. sense 2a (now historical); (b) factory workers.
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1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 116 The Alarm was sent into the Country for all the Factory People to come Home.
1816 Rep. Minutes of Evid. Select Comm. Children in Manufactories 105 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 397) III. 235 Well-behaved discreet gentlemen, even if they meet the factory people, will..go on the other side of the street to avoid them.
1871 H. B. Stowe Pink & White Tyranny vii. 79 Can you want to..be shut up with a room full of those ill-smelling factory-people?
1913 Revol. in Mexico (U.S. Senate Hearing Subcommittee of Committee Foreign Relations, 62nd Congr. 2nd Sess.) 399 You relied entirely upon the shippers?.. Yes: the Shelton-Payne Co. and the factory... And the factory people?
1994 This Country Canada Winter 59/1 In the 1940s, factory people came to purchase some of these designs.
factory second n. a commodity or manufactured item of imperfect quality, esp. one sold at a discount; = second n.2 5; frequently attributive (also in plural).
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1875 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 23 Sept. 6/1 Tobacco... Sales from Thursday to Tuesday inclusive 251 hhds [sc. hogsheads]:..49 at $9@9 90 (including 17 factory seconds at $9 10).
1918 Automobile Dealer & Repairer Aug. 37/1 A factory-second tire..sometimes gives as much actual service, in the long run as a new one, if you want to take the chance.
1989 Sun-Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 12 Mar. (Special Suppl.) 120 (advt.) Factory-seconds ceramic pots are selling at half the usual retail prices.
2005 H. J. Jackson & D. M. Wilkinson One Ranger x. 148 I was wearing a brand-new Resistol silver belly felt cowboy hat. Although it was a factory second, it still set me back $65.
factory shop n. (a) a workshop where items are manufactured; (also) a workshop within a factory; (b) a shop, operated by a factory owner, which sells food, goods, etc., to the factory workers (now rare); (c) = factory outlet n.
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1821 Aberdeen Jrnl. 1 Aug. There are several dwelling houses upon the Feu, besides Factory Shops, Office Houses, and a very good Garden.
1845 Dundee Courier 30 Sept. 1/3 If in some remote parts factory shops are still kept for the labourers, it is only done for the human purpose of rescuing the men from the extortion and imposition of the smaller shops.
1905 Quiver Jan. 589/2 The workmen cannot be compelled to buy their food at the factory shop, but it is sometimes made unpleasant for them if they do not.
1916 Industr. Educ. Mag. Mar. 534 The producing purpose of the factory shop must give way to the instruction purpose.
1973 G. Salvendy & W. D. Seymour Predict. & Developm. of Industr. Work Performance iv. 177 In a garment manufacturing firm the production of seconds was considerably reduced, but this gave the company no financial benefit because it had already been selling seconds in the factory shop at the same price as that paid by wholesalers for perfect goods.
2006 I. Gelbart Usurped 81 ‘Uncle’ secretly made gadgets out of tin in the factory shop and on weekends peddled them to the farmers in exchange for potatoes.
2010 Ideal Home May 197/2 Villeroy & Boch has a factory shop in Wandsworth that sells ceramics, glassware and cutlery from its past and current ranges, as well as factory seconds, at up to 60% less than in its usual stores.
factory trawler n. a trawler with facilities for processing the catch; cf. factory ship n.1 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > vessels which store, freeze, or transport fish
well-boat1614
fish-pool1718
sack ship1732
well smack?1758
carrier1825
sale-boat1840
ice boat1846
plunger1860
runner1881
pound-boat1884
run boat1884
fish-carrier1886
smacka1891
shacker1902
Klondiker1926
factory trawler1928
1928 Pacific Fisherman Sept. 40/3 A new departure in the Newfoundland cod fishery has been made this year by two French factory trawlers with very elaborate equipment. The vessels are 211 ft. long, with cargo capacity of 1,450 tons, and are provided with highly developed machines..for heading, splitting and boning the fish, as well as complete reduction plants for handling the offal.
1953 World Fishing 2 10/1 (caption) United States factory trawler ‘Ocean Life’.
1962 J. Tunstall Fishermen ii. 45 The factory trawler quick freezes its catch at sea.
2009 M. Everard Business of Biodiversity iii. 71 The factory trawlers adopted sonar and satellite navigation to target the fewer remaining large cod shoals.
factory woman n. (a) Australian a female prisoner; cf. sense 4b (now historical); (b) a female factory worker.
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1825 Sydney Gaz. 14 Apr. 2/3 It is not the unfortunate factory women, nor all the women England can import, that we are to look forward to for the respectable and happy population of this interesting country—factory women are out of the question.
1833 P. Gaskell Maufacturing Population Eng. iii. 87 (heading) Domestic Economy—Non-existence of, in the Factory Woman.
1843 Duncan's Weekly Reg. 16 Dec. 335/2 The bringing into competition the Factory women with the free females of the Colony by taking in washing and needlework.
1897 Evening News (Sydney) 20 Feb. 4/4 I remember the soldiers being called out to the factory women, and at one time they had become so refractory that old Mr. Oaks, who was superintendent of the factory, and his staff could do nothing with them.
1935 L. MacNeice Belfast in This Quarter 4 612 A shawled factory-woman.
1995 K. A. Yelvington Producing Power vi. 187 Muslim clerics..critiqued the factory women for this behavior.
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ˈfactory-ˌlike adj.
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1830 Spectator 18 Dec. 1047/2 The beautiful simplicity and grandeur of proportion of the Doric columns of the Parthenon, and the richer architecture of the Erectheion, are contrasted by the tiled roofs of sheds and factory-like buildings.
1959 Times 12 Mar. 13/6 This moulding process may vary from the crudest regimentation and subordination..to factory-like specification and ‘norms’.
2006 A. Robbins Overachievers ii. 37 The factory-like academic settings were churning out adults who couldn't think independently or creatively.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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