factory

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/

名詞

スコットランド英語 古語 歴史的 イギリス英語 俗語

building where things are made

日本語の意味

工場 / 製造所

英語の意味

building where things are made

ポルトガル語（ポルトガル）

edifício ou instalação onde se fabricam produtos / unidade industrial de produção

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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.

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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意味（1）

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

意味（2）

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

We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the English factory at St. Petersburg […] .

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意味（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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意味（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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意味（5）

A device or process that produces or manufactures something.

Radio became a star factory for journalists.

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意味（6）

A factory farm.

chicken factory; pig factory

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意味（7）

(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.

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factories （ plural ）