noun
- The organized action of making of goods and services for sale.
- usage: "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"
- synonyms: industry
- The act of making something (a product) from raw materials.
- usage: "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"
- synonyms: fabrication, manufacturing
verb
- Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts.
- usage: "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"; He manufactured a popular cereal"
- Make up something artificial or untrue.
- Produce naturally.
- usage: "this gland manufactures a specific substance only"
- Create or produce in a mechanical way.
- usage: "This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success"
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