manufacturing
noun (manufacturing — uncountable); verb form (manufacture, manufactures, manufactured, manufacturing)
Everyday
- The business or industry of making goods in large numbers in factories. tree →
- (verb form) Making things in a factory (they are manufacturing phones). tree →
In the lessons
In geography: manufacturing is one kind of industry, with farming and services. Towns grew around manufacturing. In maths problems: manufacturing costs and output per hour. Phrases: manufacturing industry, manufacturing plant, car manufacturing.
Examples
- Manufacturing gives jobs to many people in the town. tree →
- The factory is manufacturing new electric cars. tree →
- Car manufacturing uses lots of robots. tree →
- Steel is used in manufacturing. tree →
- Manufacturing a phone takes many different parts. tree →
- If manufacturing one chair costs 20 dollars, 6 chairs cost 120 dollars. tree →
Note
As an industry it is uncountable. Related: manufacture (verb), manufacturer (company), manufactured (made). Root "manu-" means hand, from when things were made by hand.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «manufacturing» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «manufacturing» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/manufacturing/