Definition

1. Noun:

   • The process of making goods on a large scale using machinery: "manufacture" refers to the industrial production of products, typically from raw materials.
   • A manufactured product or the manufacturing industry: It can also refer to the goods produced or the sector of industry involved in production.

2. Verb:

   • To make or produce goods on a large scale using machinery: The primary meaning involves industrial production.
   • To invent or fabricate something, often with a connotation of falseness: Used when something is concocted or created in a way that is not genuine, such as a story or excuse.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • The manufacture of automobiles requires a complex supply chain.
  • He works in manufacture, overseeing the production line.

• Verb (Industrial Production):

  • The company manufactures electronic components for computers.
  • This plant manufactures over ten thousand units per day.

• Verb (Invent/Fabricate):

  • The politician was accused of manufacturing evidence against his opponent.
  • She manufactured an elaborate excuse for being late.

Advanced Usage

• "to be of [a country's] manufacture": to be produced in a specific country.
  • This device is of Japanese manufacture.
• "the manufacture of consent": a phrase (often in political/social analysis) referring to the process of shaping public opinion through media or propaganda.
  • The documentary explored the manufacture of consent for the war.

Variants and Related Words

• Manufacturer (n): A company or person that makes goods for sale.
  • The manufacturer issued a recall for the faulty product.
• Manufacturing (n/adj): (The process of) making goods on a large scale; relating to such production.
  • Manufacturing jobs have declined in the region.
• Fabrication (n): The action or process of manufacturing or inventing something. Often overlaps with the "invent/falsify" sense of "manufacture."
  • His account of the event was a complete fabrication.

Synonyms

• Produce (v): To make or manufacture from components or raw materials.
• Fabricate (v): To construct or manufacture, especially in an industrial context; also means to invent a story.
• Assemble (v): To fit together the component parts of a product.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Manufacture" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. Its meanings are typically expressed directly.)

Related Idioms

• "Manufacture a story/excuse/reason": To invent a false or contrived explanation.
  • It was obvious he had manufactured a story to get out of trouble.

Noun

1. 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
2. the organized action of making of goods and services for sale
   • American industry is making increased use of computers to control production

Verb

1. create or produce in a mechanical way
   • This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success
2. produce naturally
   • this gland manufactures a specific substance only
3. make up something artificial or untrue
4. put together out of artificial or natural components or parts; He manufactured a popular cereal"
   • the company fabricates plastic chairs
   • They manufacture small toys