factories
- 1Plural of factory.
The new trade policy affected hundreds of factories across the region.
Automation has reshaped how modern factories organize their assembly lines.
Note
The spelling follows the rule for nouns ending in a consonant plus y: the y gives way to -ies. The plural carries every meaning of the singular, so context decides what is being counted. It might be manufacturing plants, factory farms, or, in programming, the functions and methods that create objects. In UK slang a factory is a police station, and the plural works the same way there.
factories is a form of factory
factory, noun: A building or set of premises where goods are manufactured, usually with machinery and a workforce. Full entry
- Forms
- factoryfactories plural
- Spelling
- factory → factories: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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