manufacturingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌmæn.jəˈfæk.tʃə.rɪŋ/us/ˌmæn.jəˈfæk.tʃɚ.ɪŋ/B2 the business of producing goods in large numbers:
car manufacturing
the manufacturing of military equipment
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Industry & industrial processes
- carding
- compression moulding
- deindustrialization
- die cutting
- heavy industry
- industrialization
- industry-wide
- injection moulding
- just-in-time
- light industry
- machine carding
- mining
- plastic
- prefabricated
- quality assurance
- quality control
- raw
- rustbelt
- sand-cast
- tertiary
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