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# manufacturing

«manufacturing» in Mova's school dictionary: **The business or industry of making goods in large numbers…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (manufacturing — uncountable); verb form (manufacture, manufactures, manufactured, manufacturing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The business or industry of making goods in large numbers in factories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manufacturing/#m1)

2) (verb form) Making things in a factory (they are manufacturing phones). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manufacturing/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography: manufacturing is one kind of industry, with farming and services. Towns grew around manufacturing. In maths problems: manufacturing costs and output per hour. Phrases: manufacturing industry, manufacturing plant, car manufacturing.

### examples

- Manufacturing gives jobs to many people in the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manufacturing/#x1)
- The factory is manufacturing new electric cars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manufacturing/#x2)
- Car manufacturing uses lots of robots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manufacturing/#x3)
- Steel is used in manufacturing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manufacturing/#x4)
- Manufacturing a phone takes many different parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manufacturing/#x5)
- If manufacturing one chair costs 20 dollars, 6 chairs cost 120 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manufacturing/#x6)

### note

As an industry it is uncountable. Related: manufacture (verb), manufacturer (company), manufactured (made). Root "manu-" means hand, from when things were made by hand.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «manufacturing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manufacturing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.