Other forms: manufacturers
A manufacturer is a business that makes goods on a large scale. Factories, production lines, and quantity.
The scale is what separates a manufacturer from a maker or a craftsman. The word appears constantly in consumer law, since the manufacturer carries obligations a retailer does not, and a manufacturer's warranty is separate from your rights against the shop. The verb is manufacture, which also has a figurative sense meaning to invent, so manufactured outrage is anger produced deliberately.
1nounmanufacturerA company that produces goods on a large scale.
“The fault was admitted by the manufacturer.”
From manufacture + -er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA