factory

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/

Noun

Scotland archaic historical UK slang

(chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor. / (now historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

Japanese Meaning

（主にスコットランドで用いられ、現在は希少）ファクターである状態、すなわち代理業者や仲介商としての立場を意味する。 / （歴史的用法）商人が外国で設立した交易拠点、商館を指す。

What is this buttons?

Even after stepping down from active duties, he never surrendered his factory over the Highland estates, for it conferred the authority to manage affairs on their behalf.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

現場の職務を退いた後も、彼はハイランドの地所に対する代理人としての地位を決して手放さなかった。それは地所を代表して事務を管理する権限を彼に与えていたからだ。

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Sense（1）

(chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor.

Sense（2）

(now historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

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Sense（3）

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

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Sense（4）

(UK, slang) A police station.

The guys all knew each other and we were having a jolly old chinwag as we marched them out of the house in front of their stunned neighbours and into a van we had called to take them all to the Factory (police station).

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