Usually means: Manufacturing facilities producing goods systematically.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. factories: Merriam-Webster
  2. factories: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. factories: Collins English Dictionary
  4. factories: Vocabulary.com
  5. Factories, factories: Wordnik
  6. factories: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. factories: Wiktionary
  8. Factories, factories: Dictionary.com
  9. factories: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Factories: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Factories: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Factories: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. factories: FreeDictionary.org
  14. factories: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. factories: Encyclopedia

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  1. factories: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (factory)

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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