OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 5832

factory

/ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
factoría • fábrica • manufactura • obraje • planta
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
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 painted factory…
[…] 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 rail…
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