{
    "term": "manufacture",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "manufacture",
            "heSheIt": "manufactures"
        },
        "pastSimple": "manufactured",
        "pastParticiple": "manufactured",
        "ingForm": "manufacturing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to make goods in large quantities, using machines",
            "sensetop": "manufacture something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "manufactured goods"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This company manufactures the equipment used to make contact lenses."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "mass-produce",
            "topics": ["Business"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to invent a story, an excuse, etc.",
            "sensetop": "manufacture something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a news story manufactured by an unscrupulous journalist"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The evidence against him had been largely manufactured."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were claims that the entire row had been manufactured by the press."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to produce a substance",
            "sensetop": "manufacture something",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Vitamins cannot be manufactured by our bodies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Plants use the sun's light to manufacture their food."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃə(r)/",
                "audio": "ma/manufacture/manufacture__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃəz/",
                "audio": "ma/manufacture/manufactures__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃəd/",
                "audio": "ma/manufacture/manufactured__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ma/manufacture/manufacturing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃər/",
                "audio": "ma/manufacture/manufacture__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərz/",
                "audio": "ma/manufacture/manufactures__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərd/",
                "audio": "ma/manufacture/manufactured__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ma/manufacture/manufacturing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (as noun, denoting something made by hand): from French (re-formed by association with Latin manu factum ‘made by hand’), from Italian manifattura. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent."
}