Manufacture

English Meaning

The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

1. To make or process (a raw material) into a finished product, especially by means of a large-scale industrial operation.
2. To make or process (a product), especially with the use of industrial machines.
3. To create, produce, or turn out in a mechanical manner: "His books seem to have been manufactured rather than composed” ( Dwight Macdonald).
4. To concoct or invent; fabricate: manufacture an excuse.
5. To make or process goods, especially in large quantities and by means of industrial machines.
6. The act, craft, or process of manufacturing products, especially on a large scale.
7. An industry in which mechanical power and machinery are employed.
8. A product that is manufactured.
9. The making or producing of something.