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Webster 1913 Edition


Manufacturing

Manˊu-fac′tur-ing

,
Adj.
1.
Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture;
as, a
manufacturing
community; a
manufacturing
town.
2.
Pertaining to manufacture;
as,
manufacturing
projects
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Manufacturing

MANUFAC'TURING

,
ppr.
Making goods and wares from raw materials.

Definition 2024


manufacturing

manufacturing

English

Noun

manufacturing (usually uncountable, plural manufacturings)

  1. The transformation of raw materials into finished products, usually on a large scale.

Translations

Adjective

manufacturing (not comparable)

  1. Used in manufacturing.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
      More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

Verb

manufacturing

  1. present participle of manufacture