(n.) A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.
(n.) The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(2) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(3) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
(4) The company abandoned plans to build a second savoury factory in the East Midlands, as well as its Greggs Moment coffee shops which it had been trialling since 2011.
(5) One hundred and twenty blood pressure measurements were taken from each subject with two different instruments (one on each arm) in a 2 (supine or standing position) X 2 (left or right arm) X 3 (three different sets of pairwise instrument comparisons) X 5 (five one-minute interval measurements per phase) factorial design.
(6) De Blasio's first significant act as mayor was to challenge a development plan for the iconic Domino's Sugar factory in Brooklyn – a typical late-Bloomberg, large-scale building project.
(7) The experiment had a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments with two nest holding times and two storage methods.
(8) Despite the high rates of dermatoses found in a study of 686 female workers in a canning factory in March 1990, use of protective gloves was extremely low, even though there was evidence that they prevented acute paronychia and intertrigo.
(9) Using confirmatory factor analysis on an independent sample (N = 377), these dimensions were tested for factorial invariance across spouse and nonspouse caregivers and between caregivers of persons with cancer and those caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease.
(10) Each experiment was designed as a 2 x 2 x 3 factorial with normal birds and acclimatization birds fitted with harnesses or housed over collection trays and given one of three dietary treatments.
(11) Aspects of health were studied in a sample of factory workers who changed their pattern of working from 'fortnight about' to three advancing shifts.
(12) Curbelo said that the caucus is an “ideas factory” but there are no consensus solutions to go with the group’s name.
(13) The relationships between personality characteristics and semantic habits were explored with use of The Sixteen Personality Factory Questionnaire, Form E, and a measure of semantic habits.
(14) Former factory workers of Merthyr Tydfil, you have been warned.
(15) About 120 South Korean firms run factories in the border town of Kaesong, with 53,000 North Koreans working there.
(16) In the worst cases, they are the 21st-century equivalent of the desperate dawn queue at the Victorian factory gate.
(17) Inception rate of persons was 0.73 versus 0.48, and point prevalence rates 0.002 versus 0.001, whilst period prevalence rates were 0.016 versus 0.011 for the study and control factories respectively.
(18) The agency confirmed it was investigating the allegations made by whistleblowers to the Guardian about hygiene standards in specific factories relating to the spread of campylobacter bacteria - the most common form of food poisoning in the UK.
(19) Chris Hagan, managing director of the factory, says: "If you chopped them into smaller pieces, you could sell them to B&Q."
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Women at work in a Bangladeshi garment factory.
Tenter
Definition:
(n.) One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
(n.) A kind of governor.
(n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.