Definitions for FACTORIES
fac·to·ries

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1. factoriesnoun

   Plural form of factory.

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1. factories

   A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories. Factories arose with the introduction of machinery during the Industrial Revolution, when the capital and space requirements became too great for cottage industry or workshops. Early factories that contained small amounts of machinery, such as one or two spinning mules, and fewer than a dozen workers have been called "glorified workshops".Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Large factories tend to be located with access to multiple modes of transportation, some having rail, highway and water loading and unloading facilities. In some countries like Australia, it is common to call a factory building a "Shed". Factories may either make discrete products or some type of continuously produced material, such as chemicals, pulp and paper, or refined oil products. Factories manufacturing chemicals are often called plants and may have most of their equipment – tanks, pressure vessels, chemical reactors, pumps and piping – outdoors and operated from control rooms. Oil refineries have most of their equipment outdoors. Discrete products may be final goods, or parts and sub-assemblies which are made into final products elsewhere. Factories may be supplied parts from elsewhere or make them from raw materials. Continuous production industries typically use heat or electricity to transform streams of raw materials into finished products. The term mill originally referred to the milling of grain, which usually used natural resources such as water or wind power until those were displaced by steam power in the 19th century. 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.

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1. Factories

   of Factory

British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'FACTORIES' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4314

Anagrams for FACTORIES »

1. factorise

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of FACTORIES in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of FACTORIES in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of FACTORIES in a Sentence

1. Bindiya Vakil:

   In a year in which the global supply chain already has several triggers of disruptions, the high occurrence of fires in factories exacerbated the overall situation, a fire at one supplier can affect many industries.

2. Piquadro Chief Executive Marco Palmieri:

   Chinese factories are designed to handle large volumes: we increasingly need smaller volumes of a much larger variety of products. And we're also under pressure to reduce the time-to-market of our products.

3. Ivy Park:

   Ivy Park has a rigorous ethical trading program. We are proud of our sustained efforts in terms of factory inspections and audits, and our teams worldwide work very closely with our suppliers and their factories to ensure compliance, we expect our suppliers to meet our code of conduct and we support them in achieving these requirements.

4. Fabrice Laurent:

   Origins is the only stockholder at the moment in Cipexi in Ivory Coast, where we have inherited two factories and some 600 employees of the company.

5. Bill Mills:

   At a board level, it makes a lot of sense. At the operational level, it is a lot more difficult, on the one level there are some cost savings, but on the other hand M&S will have to place resource in their buying offices, whether that be UK or local, to manage the factories. It is not a panacea.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Factories
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factories
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/FACTORIES