manufacture

1. 1.

   the organized action of making of goods and services for sale

   “American industry is making increased use of computers to control production”

   Synonymsindustry

   Broadercommercial enterprise

   Narrowercottage industryproductionindustrialization
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsfabricationmanufacturing

   Broadercreating from raw materials

   Narrowerformationnewspeakprefabrication

Other forms of manufacture

plural

manufactures·

past tense

manufactured·

present participle

manufacturing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about manufacture

What does manufacture mean?

manufacture means "put together out of artificial or natural components or parts". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in manufacture?

manufacture has 4 syllables: man-u-fac-ture. The stress falls on "fac". In IPA it is /ˌmænjəˈfæktʃɚ/.

What is another word for manufacture?

Close synonyms include fabricate, construct, fabricate, cook up, make up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is manufacture a common word?

manufacture is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.