Usually means: Manufacturing site for mass production.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word factory:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. factory: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. factory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. factory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. factory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Factory, factory: Wordnik
  6. factory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. factory: Wiktionary
  8. factory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. factory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. factory: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Factory, factory: Dictionary.com
  12. factory: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. factory: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Factory (TV series), Factory (The Vines), Factory (band), Factory (design pattern), Factory (disambiguation), Factory (object-oriented programming), Factory (software concept), Factory (trading post), Factory, The Factory (Australian TV series), The Factory (Manchester), The Factory (album), The Factory (band), The Factory (film), The Factory (song), The Factory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Factory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. factory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. factory: Rhymezone
  18. factory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. factory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. FACTORY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. factory: Free Dictionary
  22. factory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. factory: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. factory: Vocabulary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Factory (manufacturing), factory: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. factory: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. factory: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. factory, factory: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Factory: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. factory: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor.
noun:  (historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
noun:  A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
noun:  (UK, slang) A police station.
noun:  A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
noun:  A factory farm.
noun:  (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
noun:  (attributive) The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
adjective:  (colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

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