manufactureverb [ T ]
uk/ˌmæn.jəˈfæk.tʃər/us/ˌmæn.jəˈfæk.tʃɚ/manufacture verb [ T ] (PRODUCE)
B2 to produce goods in large numbers, usually in a factory using machines:
He works for a company that manufactures car parts.
The report notes a rapid decline in manufactured goods.
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- Mercedes were pioneers during the early days of car manufacture.
- The number of old German cars still on the road attests to the excellence of their manufacture.
- Organic chemicals are used in the manufacture of plastics, fibres, solvents and paints.
- We manufacture undergarments that tone and slenderize.
- The company manufactures parts for weapons.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Industry & industrial processes
- carding
- compression moulding
- deindustrialization
- die cutting
- heavy industry
- industrialization
- industry-wide
- injection moulding
- just-in-time
- light industry
- machine carding
- mining
- plastic
- prefabricated
- quality assurance
- quality control
- raw
- rustbelt
- sand-cast
- tertiary
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manufacture verb [ T ] (INVENT)
to invent something, such as an excuse or story, in order to deceive someone:
She insisted that every scandalous detail of the story had been manufactured.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- make sth up
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- propaganda
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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manufacturenoun [ U ]
uk/ˌmæn.jəˈfæk.tʃər/us/ˌmæn.jəˈfæk.tʃɚ/the process of producing goods:
Oil is used in the manufacture of a number of fabrics.
The amount of recycled glass used in manufacture doubled in five years.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Industry & industrial processes
- carding
- compression moulding
- deindustrialization
- die cutting
- heavy industry
- industrialization
- industry-wide
- injection moulding
- just-in-time
- light industry
- machine carding
- mining
- plastic
- prefabricated
- quality assurance
- quality control
- raw
- rustbelt
- sand-cast
- tertiary
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