manufacture
verb /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃə(r)/
/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃər/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they manufacture | /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃə(r)/ /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃər/ |
| he / she / it manufactures | /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃəz/ /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərz/ |
| past simple manufactured | /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃəd/ /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərd/ |
| past participle manufactured | /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃəd/ /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərd/ |
| -ing form manufacturing | /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərɪŋ/ /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərɪŋ/ |
- manufacture something to make goods in large quantities, using machines synonym mass-produce
- manufactured goods
- This company manufactures the equipment used to make contact lenses.
- manufacture something to invent a story, an excuse, etc.
- a news story manufactured by an unscrupulous journalist
Extra Examples- The evidence against him had been largely manufactured.
- There were claims that the entire row had been manufactured by the press.
- manufacture something (specialist) to produce a substance
- Vitamins cannot be manufactured by our bodies.
- Plants use the sun's light to manufacture their food.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (as noun, denoting something made by hand): from French (re-formed by association with Latin manu factum ‘made by hand’), from Italian manifattura. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent.