Manufacturer
[,mænjʊ'fæktʃ(ə)rə(r)] or [,mænju'fæktʃərɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a business engaged in manufacturing some product.
(noun.) someone who manufactures something.
Editor: Sweeney--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who manufactures.
Checker: Lyman
Examples
- He reviewed his position as a Milton manufacturer. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The manufacturer has always been accustomed to look for his subsistence from his labour only; the soldier to expect it from his pay. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But you know I am but an uncouth Milton manufacturer; will you forgive me? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In every improved society, the farmer is generally nothing but a farmer; the manufacturer, nothing but a manufacturer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The manufacturer nodded an affirmative, and the rescue-party set out. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That is a costly mania for a manufacturer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- On Thursday the manufacturer hired a neighbouring building and set carpenters at work fitting it up. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She was a manufacturer--she made fine linen and sold it; she was an agriculturist--she bought estates and planted vineyards. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The self-raising flour, so widely advertised by grocers, is flour in which these ingredients or their equivalent have been mixed by the manufacturer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Percolators of this type are made by the manufacturer from sheet copper spun in perfect shape, and also aluminum spun. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But, Mr. Harris, remonstrated the manufacturer, isn't this rather sudden? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The man from whom Bell rented his workshop was Charles Williams, himself a manufacturer of electrical supplies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- From the dawn of history the manufacturer and craftsman had been, as we have said, a sort of middle-class townsman. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The hypercritical may cavil and say that, as a manufacturer of cement, Edison will be benefited. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Ryland was a man of obscure birth and of immense wealth, inherited from his father, who had been a manufacturer. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Capitalists and manufacturers had been rendered so conservative by the large loss of money in the Roxbury Company, that they were disinclined to have anything further to do with it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The prohibition of the importation of foreign woollen is equally favourable to the woollen manufacturers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Those merchants and manufacturers enjoy a sort of monopoly in the country which is so indulgent to them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is used by food manufacturers and performs highly important functions in certain commercial fields. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The opposition of rival manufacturers could not in the nature of things long retard what was to become one of the nation’s main industries. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Chief among the bicycle manufacturers who took up the making of the motor-paced tandem was Oscar Hedstrom, a racer with many notable victories to his credit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The manufacturers first supply the neighbourhood, and afterwards, as their work improves and refines, more distant markets. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But our manufacturers were not long satisfied with this reduction: by the 29th of the same king, chap. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- As something of a stranger, and as a man of note and action, the assembled manufacturers received him with a certain distinction. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Oh, but the manufacturers! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The warp was made by the cloth and linen manufacturers, and the weft yarns furnished by the woman spinsters throughout the country. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is the labour of artificers and manufacturers only of which the free circulation is obstructed by corporation laws. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But the big Manchester manufacturers refused to trade with him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Bankers, merchants, and manufacturers, whose trade depended on exports and interchange of wealth, became bankrupt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Several of the pleasure-car manufacturers took advantage of the awakening interest and added a commercial vehicle section to their plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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