manufacturing
- 1The industrial making of goods from raw materials, usually in large quantities, or the part of the economy that does this.
Manufacturing converts raw materials like steel and plastic into finished cars and appliances.
Modern manufacturing depends on automation to produce goods at enormous scale.
UsageOften after in: work in manufacturing, jobs in manufacturing.
- 2Relating to or used in the production of goods from raw materials.
The company opened a large manufacturing facility outside the city.
Strict safety rules apply throughout the manufacturing sector.
UsageComes before the noun: a manufacturing plant, manufacturing jobs. Beside industrial, it points to the making of goods.
Similarindustrial
- 3Present participle of manufacture.
The plant is manufacturing thousands of units each day.
Local firms are manufacturing components for the aerospace industry.
Note
The -ing form does double duty. After be it makes the progressive (the plant is manufacturing parts), and as a gerund it names the activity itself. It carries every sense of manufacture, including the derogatory one of fabricating false evidence. That makes "they were manufacturing an alibi" an accusation, not a production report. The same spelling also serves the noun for the process and the adjective.
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manufacturing is a form of manufacture
manufacture, verb: To make things, often in large amounts, using tools and either human labor or machinery. Full entry
- Forms
- manufacturemanufactures he/she/itmanufacturing -ing formmanufactured past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- manufacture → manufacturing: drop the e, add -ing
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