factory

/ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/

noun

(chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor. / (now historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

The factory produces thousands of cars every day.

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意味（1）

(chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor.

意味（2）

(now historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

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意味（3）

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

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(UK, slang) A police station.

The guys all knew each other and we were having a jolly old chinwag as we marched them out of the house in front of their stunned neighbours and into a van we had called to take them all to the Factory (police station).

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