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Etymology

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Fromfactor +‎y.[1]CompareMiddle Frenchfactorie;Spanishfactoría,Portuguesefeitoria,Dutchfactorij.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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factory (pluralfactories)

  1. (chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being afactor.[from 16th c.]
  2. (historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.[from 16th c.]
    • 1792,James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.),Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 184:
      We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the Englishfactory at St. Petersburg […] .
  4. Abuilding or other place wheremanufacturing takes place.[from 17th c.]
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls offactories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 7, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:
      The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily paintedfactory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
    Synonym:manufactory
    History has shown that, even without cheap labor,factories run perfectly well.
  5. (UK, slang) Apolice station.[from 19th c.]
    • 2010, Harry Keeble, Kris Hollington,Crack House:
      The guys all knew each other and we were having a jolly old chinwag as we marched them out of the house in front of their stunned neighbours and into a van we had called to take them all to theFactory (police station).
  6. A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
    • 2009, Sam Riley,Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture, page200:
      Radio became a starfactory for journalists.
  7. Afactory farm.
    chickenfactory; pigfactory
  8. (programming) In a computer program or library, afunction,method, etc. which creates anobject.
    • 2010, Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew,Inside the Microsoft Build Engine:
      The taskfactory[…] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.
  9. (attributive) The original state of anelectronicdevice, as it was when it came from themanufacturer.
    factory settings; factory defaults; afactory reset

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Translations

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manufacturing place
producing device
colonial-era trading post operated by merchants in a foreign port
in computing, a function or method that creates objects
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Adjective

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factory (notcomparable)

  1. (colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in;original,stock.
    See how there's another layer of metal there? That's notfactory.

References

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  1. ^“factory,noun.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press,2014.

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