manufacturing

UK/ˌmænjʊˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/US/ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,453 of 15,258mostly written

Manufacturing is the making of goods on a large scale. A manufacturing town.

The word is literally making by hand, which is exactly what it no longer means. Manufacturing employs far fewer people than it did and produces far more.

Definitions of manufacturing

1nounmanufacturingThe making of goods on a large scale.B2
“Manufacturing was the whole of the town's work for a century.”

manufacturing is an industry.

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manufacturing in the wild

Manufacturing engineering is the field of engineering that designs and optimizes the manufacturing process, or the steps through which raw materials are transformed into a final product.
Manufacturing
The manufacturing sector is closely connected with the engineering and industrial design industries.
Manufacturing
The aircraft industry is the industry supporting aviation by building aircraft and manufacturing aircraft parts for their maintenance.
Aerospace manufacturer
Because many processes like spinning and weaving, iron rolling, and paper manufacturing were originally powered by water, the term survives as in steel mill, paper mill, etc.
Factory
The Rust Belt experienced industrial decline beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, with manufacturing peaking as a percentage of U.S.
Rust Belt

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