MANUFACTURING PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manufacturing plant mean? 

• MANUFACTURING PLANT (noun)
  The noun MANUFACTURING PLANT has 1 sense:

1. a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

  Familiarity information: MANUFACTURING PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANUFACTURING PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill

Hypernyms ("manufacturing plant" is a kind of...):

industrial plant; plant; works (buildings for carrying on industrial labor)

Meronyms (parts of "manufacturing plant"):

assembly line; line; production line (mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it)

shop floor (workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines)

Domain member category:

conveyer; conveyer belt; conveyor; conveyor belt; transporter (a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory))

closed-circuit television (a television system that is not used for broadcasting but is connected by cables to designated monitors (as in a factory or theater))

uptime (a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is functioning and available for use)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manufacturing plant"):

assembly plant (a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product)

auto factory; automobile factory; car factory (a factory where automobiles are manufactured)

cannery (a factory where food is canned)

chemical plant (an industrial plant where chemicals are produced)

foundry; metalworks (factory where metal castings are produced)

lumbermill; sawmill (a mill for dressing logs and lumber)

paper mill (a mill where paper is manufactured)

stamp mill; stamping mill (a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps)

steel factory; steel mill; steel plant; steelworks (a factory where steel is made)

sweatshop (factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry)

textile mill (a factory for making textiles)