Factory
Factory , noun
[Compare French factorerie.]
1.
A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.
The Company's factory at Madras.
2.
The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. — W. Guthrie
3.
A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.
Collocations (1)
Factory leg (Medicine) , a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.