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Factory-made   Listen
adjective
factory-made  adj.  Made in a factory. Contrasted with homemade. (Narrower terms: boughten, store-bought; mass-produced)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Factory-made" Quotes from Famous Books



... century (fig. 47), and the compass saw (accession 61.52, fig. 48) capture in their basic design something beyond the functional extension of the craftsman's hand. The slow curve of the bitstock, never identical from one early example to another, is lost in later factory-made versions; so too, with the coming of cheap steel, does the combination of wood (walnut) and brass used in the cabinetmaker's bevel slowly disappear; and, finally, in the custom-fitted pistol-like grip ...
— Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 • Peter C. Welsh

... fifty dollars each; choice fabrics, however, bring from three hundred to ten thousand dollars. Oriental rugs are hand-woven, and a weaver frequently spends several years on a single piece, earning perhaps less than ten cents a day. The factory-made rugs are inferior to the ...
— Commercial Geography - A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges • Jacques W. Redway

... the manufacturer to stop sending any more supplies there, and the garments in the house are tagged till after disinfection. And by the same means all the cards are laid on the table. If a merchant in California or in Florida brags that he buys only factory-made goods, the customer can find out through the Consumers' League if it is true. If the register shows that the manufacturer has filed lists of the tenements where his goods are made up, it is not ...
— The Battle with the Slum • Jacob A. Riis



Words linked to "Factory-made" :   store-bought, ready-made, boughten



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