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say it: ma-nyuh-FAK-chur-ing
manufacturing is a noun meaning "the act of making something (a product) from raw materials". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for manufacturing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.