Synonyms:
industry, manufacture
Meaning: the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
manufacture, fabricate, construct
Meaning: put together out of artificial or natural components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"; He manufactured a popular cereal"
Synonyms:
fabricate, manufacture, cook_up, make_up, invent
Meaning: make up something artificial or untrue
Usage examples
The false eye is not of flesh but one of manufacture.
It was also their duty, when not otherwise engaged, to manufacture snow-balls.
The Spider with the Crab-like figure does not know how to manufacture nets for catching game.
Bergmann was a man of great executive ability and carried economy of manufacture to the limit.
Similar examples are found in the manufacture of shoes, and in all varieties of wood- and iron-work.
Yellow phosphorus is not allowed to be used in the manufacture of lucifer matches, and the importation of such is prohibited.
Because of distance from raw materials, New England even now finds herself hard pushed in her rivalry with the Southern states in the manufacture of textiles.
The small boy was convalescing, and was engaged in playing on the floor with some tin ships, together with two or three pasteboard monitors and rams of my own manufacture.
In another chapter we have referred to this quality of straw, that is taken advantage of by the inhabitants of hot countries in the manufacture of ice and in our own land for storing it.
They asked him to undertake the reconstruction of the schools of design, and they gave him an office which placed him practically at the head of the various institutions designed to promote the application of art to manufacture.