manufacturern.

a1687 W. Petty Papers (1927) I. 189 A Merchant is one who buys and sells. There are grain merchants, grossers, retaylers, speeders, and growers or manufacturers.

1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 312 Those who differ from the Established Church are generally of the lowest Rank, Mechanicks, Artificers and Manufacturers.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 125 The wages of mechanicks, artificers, and manufacturers, should be somewhat higher than those of common labourers. View more context for this quotation

1813 J. Laskey Gen. Acct. Hunterian Mus. in Glasgow Archaeol. Jrnl. (1985) 12 9/1 It is disposed in such a manner, that the manufacturer who sits on her hams at this simple machine, knots it across with small plaited threads.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 433 A shilling a day was the pay to which the English manufacturer then [sc. in 1680] thought himself entitled.

1876 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 39 215 There are perhaps hundreds of thousands of artisans and manufacturers whose incomes..reach 100l. per annum. Yet these men in many instances are content to dwell like pigs.

1905 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 9 243 The tailors and leather goods manufacturers [in the Russian Pale] form 55.7 per cent of all the artisans.

1698 J. Lowther Let. 22 Mar. (1983) 545 The bushel iron, the very refuse of what is had from most iron manufacturers is..the best.

1721 Jrnls. House of Lords 25 Feb. 21 448/2 A Petition of the Manufacturers of, and Dealers in, Cotton Wool, in Manchester, and Places adjacent, in Behalf of themselves and many Thousands of poor People employed in the Cotton Manufactures.

1748 D. Hume Philos. Ess. Human Understanding viii. 143 A Manufacturer reckons upon the Labour of his Servants.

1797 J. Robinson Directory of Sheffield 137 Directory of the Manufacturers with their marks.

1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) xxiv. 231 Whilst the manufacturers..are complaining of the ruinously low price of their produce.

1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 120 John Nussey, cloth manufacturer, Birstal, Yorkshire... Jacob Tweedale, flannel manufacturer, Rochdale.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Comm. 302 Manufacturers in want of customers cried out for trade prohibitions.

1901 Daily News 22 Mar. 3/2 It is the duty of a manufacturer to charge the highest price he can get.

1908 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 16 102 For some years the American Federation of Labor has been publishing..lists of manufacturers supposedly hostile to union labor.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 144 Lozenge and comfit manufacturer to His Majesty the King.

1956 Good Housek. (N.Y.) Aug. 226 (heading) ‘I think I'll write to the manufacturer.’.. If you do write to a big company, follow these hints to help your letter get faster attention.

1984 Which Micro? Dec. 3 (advt.) Every computer manufacturer now claims its products are ‘user friendly’.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 145. ⁋8 The manufacturers of literature..like other artificers.

1802 J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës 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.

1850 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Representative Men vi. 245 The men of letters he slighted; ‘they were manufacturers of phrases’.

1880 Our Nat. Responsibility for Opium Trade 4 The Indian Government is the greatest manufacturer in the world.

1977 Contemp. Sociol. 6 725/1 Melvin Lasky's..Utopia and Revolution traces..the recurring longing for more satisfactory social arrangements, a longing that is repeatedly channeled into a revolutionary ideology by manufacturers of promises.

1994 Callaloo 17 883 Every illegitimate son is a death sentence for his manufacturer.