foundry
noun
found·ry ˈfau̇n-drē 
plural foundries
1
: an establishment where founding is carried on
2
: the act, process, or art of casting metals
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Fox News Digital spoke to several works about the student debt scheme Thursday at the Donsco, Inc. iron foundry in south-central Pennsylvania. 
Haris Alic, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2022 But within a year, the foundry had closed, my father was out of a job, and there were no jobs to be had in our corner of southeastern Belgium. Lucy Sante, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022 The coveted Yacht-Master 42 received a stylish update for 2022, with a 42 mm Oyster case cast at the brand’s foundry in Geneva. Laurie Brookins, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2022 But process technology alone does not make a semiconductor foundry. Steven Leibson, Forbes, 25 July 2022 Tirias Research believes that this announcement by IFS and MediaTek is yet one more indicator that Intel and IFS are fully committed to the semiconductor foundry business. Steven Leibson, Forbes, 25 July 2022 Russian natural gas has fired the furnaces that create molten stainless steel at Clemens Schmees’s family foundry since 1961, when his father set up shop in a garage in the western part of Germany. New York Times, 15 July 2022 The foundry is in a nondescript brick building alongside a busy road about four miles from PNC Park. BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022 The Taiwanese foundry builds the most important mobile processors in the world right now. Chris Smith, BGR, 22 July 2022 See More
Haris Alic, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2022 But within a year, the foundry had closed, my father was out of a job, and there were no jobs to be had in our corner of southeastern Belgium. Lucy Sante, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022 The coveted Yacht-Master 42 received a stylish update for 2022, with a 42 mm Oyster case cast at the brand’s foundry in Geneva. Laurie Brookins, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2022 But process technology alone does not make a semiconductor foundry. Steven Leibson, Forbes, 25 July 2022 Tirias Research believes that this announcement by IFS and MediaTek is yet one more indicator that Intel and IFS are fully committed to the semiconductor foundry business. Steven Leibson, Forbes, 25 July 2022 Russian natural gas has fired the furnaces that create molten stainless steel at Clemens Schmees’s family foundry since 1961, when his father set up shop in a garage in the western part of Germany. New York Times, 15 July 2022 The foundry is in a nondescript brick building alongside a busy road about four miles from PNC Park. BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022 The Taiwanese foundry builds the most important mobile processors in the world right now. Chris Smith, BGR, 22 July 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Middle French fondrie, fonderie, from fond-, base of fondre "to cast, found entry 5" + -rie, -erie -ery
First Known Use
1536, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
foundry
noun
found·ry ˈfau̇n-drē
plural foundries
: a building or factory where metal goods are made