factories

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factories - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Factory \Fac"to*ry\, n.; pl. Factories (-r[i^]z). [Cf. F.
     factorerie.]
     1. A house or place where factors, or commercial agents,
        reside, to transact business for their employers. "The
        Company's factory at Madras." --Burke.
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     2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a
        British factory. --W. Guthrie.
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     3. A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to
        the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are
        employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a
        manufactory; as, a cotton factory.
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     Factory leg (Med.), a variety of bandy leg, associated with
        partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young
        children by working in factories.
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