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Noun manufacture has 2 senses
- industry, manufacture - the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"
--1 is a kind of commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
--1 has particulars:
- fabrication, manufacture - the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"
--2 is a kind of creating from raw materials
--2 has particulars: formation, shaping; newspeak; prefabrication
Verb manufacture has 2 senses
- manufacture, fabricate, construct - put together out of components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"
--1 is one way to make
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, invent - make up something artificial or untrue
--2 is one way to think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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