a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine
工厂。
[with modifier]
〈喻〉 (定期或短时内的)批量生产者
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the group have become a rock-and-roll hit factory .这一演唱组合简直成了具有轰动效应的摇滚乐的制造厂了。
〈史〉 (在外国的)代理店,代理行。
"late 16th cent. (in sense 2): via Portuguese