factory

noun (plural factories)

• 1a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine: a clothing factory [as modifier]:factory workers
• [with modifier] a person or organization that continually produces a great quantity of something specified:the group have become a rock-and-roll hit factory

• 2 historical an establishment for traders carrying on business in a foreign country: he is chaplain to the British factory at St Petersburg