manufacture

Make in factories

Manufacture is to make things, especially in large quantities using machinery: The company manufactures auto parts.

The word implies industrial production rather than handcraft.

Manufactured goods are mass-produced products.

To manufacture something can also mean to fabricate or invent it—manufactured evidence, a manufactured crisis.

A manufacture is an instance of manufacturing or the thing produced.

deceit

fabricate

Invent or manufacture

contrive · make up · forge · fake · trump up · cook up · spin · distort · misrepresent · counterfeit

fabrication

construct

Build systematically

mold · shape · fashion · form · machine · weld · cast · stamp · press · extrude

industrial

factory

Industrial production facility

production line · machinery · automation · workforce · output · fabrication · processing · quality control · warehouse · logistics

craftsmanship

artisan

Skilled manual tradesperson

precision · skill · carpentry · tailoring · pottery · weaving · blacksmithing · leatherwork · glassblowing · woodworking

invention

design

Purposeful creative planning

patent · blueprint · innovate · conceptualize · model · draft · render · iterate · test · refine

Categories
Opposites
production method

manufacturehandcraft

Create something manually

handmake · bespoke · tailor · sculpt · whittle

originality

manufacturecopy

Identical reproduction made

replicate · duplicate · reproduce · imitate · clone

economic cycle

manufactureconsume

Take in fully

consumption · use up · use · deplete · wear out

Phrases
Family

manufacturing, manufactured, manufacturer, manufacturers, manufactures, manufacturable, manufacturability

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G