{
    "term": "factory",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/bu/buildings.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a building or group of buildings where goods are made, mainly by machine",
            "sensetop": "in/at a factory",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a car factory"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The factory closed down ten years ago."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She works in the local textile factory.",
                    "contextForm": "in/at a factory"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**factory workers**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He works in a shoe factory."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They had to close the factory down in the recession."
                },
                {
                    "text": "capital to set up a ceramics factory"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a chocolate/​clothing/​soap factory"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Buildings", "Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["large", "small", "modern"],
                "verb + factory": ["build", "open", "set up"],
                "factory + verb": ["make something", "produce something", "open"],
                "factory + noun": ["manager", "owner", "worker"],
                "preposition": ["at factory", "in factory"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person or organization that continuously produces a large quantity of a particular thing",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This record label has become a real hit factory *(= one that produces a lot of successful songs)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These universities are becoming colourless degree factories, with no sense of what higher learning is really about."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfæktri//ˈfæktəri/",
                "audio": "fa/factory/factory__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfæktri//ˈfæktəri/",
                "audio": "fa/factory/factory__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (originally referring to a place where traders did business in a foreign country): via Portuguese feitoria. The current sense is based on late Latin factorium, literally ‘oil press’."
}