noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chocolate factory
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My dream job would be working in a chocolate factory.
a factory farm (= one in which animals are kept inside, in small spaces, and made to grow or produce eggs very quickly )
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Pigs in factory farms are fed a mixture of grains and proteins.
a factory/farm/office worker
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Factory workers threatened strikes.
a farm/factory/school etc gate
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I carefully shut the farm gate behind me.
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Lots of parents were waiting outside the school gate.
a house/factory/car etc blaze (= a burning house/factory/car etc )
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Three people were badly hurt in a house blaze.
agricultural/industrial/factory etc machinery
factory farming
factory floor
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There’s been a lot of talk on the factory floor among the ordinary workers about more layoffs.
factory/hospital/school etc closure
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the problem of school closures
garment industry/factory/district etc
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She works in the garment district of Manhattan.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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Alongside the Manchester Ship Canal there were open spaces suitable for large modern factories using imported raw materials.
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Periodically during the day, we received fire from a large factory to our north.
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Moreover, the technology that is commonly available for large cement factories is inappropriate for most developing countries.
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He enraged biologists by considering the biosphere of living creatures as a large chemical factory .
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The net loss of 2.8 million from 1971 to 1989 occurred above all through the decline of the large factory .
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By 1980 the Puzzle Palace had become the largest single espionage factory the free world had ever known or could ever imagine.
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As capitalism developed, the workforce was increasingly concentrated in large factories where production was a social enterprise.
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Eliseo worked in a large state-run factory for a very small wage.
local
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The roots are crushed in the local sugar factory to extract the sugary juice.
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Union teachers might not get a cost of living increase, but they could negotiate with the local ice cream factory .
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To keep the supporters out of mischief during the morning, Chapman arranged tours of a local factory and brewery.
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In particular all local factories and the military were ordered to rejoice.
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Brachs, a confectionery company, recently took Chicago by surprise when it announced the closure of its local factory .
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Sometimes the blacksmith would take on commissions from other organisations such as repair work for local factories or railway companies.
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Many had livestock pens and some had specialized functions connected with a local firm or factory .
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The four local factories were told in no uncertain terms that they had to celebrate.
new
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The other decision was to build a new factory .
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That was followed in mid-1985 by production of engines and other components at a new factory in Anna, Ohio.
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Part two is business-oriented and built around a visitor's search for a new factory site.
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The new factory made it possible for the company to produce increasingly elaborate garments.
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Would you open a new factory there now?
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Foreign manufacturers could only benefit by starting new factories in Britain, again creating jobs.
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That ended in the 1950s, when the new factory trawlers arrived.
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The £50 million deal involves supplies to Toyota's new factory in Derbyshire.
small
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One of the few exceptions is a small factory , mainly employing women, which produces electronic components.
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Still there were crucial differences in this small sample of factories .
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Local authorities will be responsible for controlling discharges from smaller factories and license provisions for waste disposal contractors.
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He set up a small factory in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1895.
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She considers whether or not to start a small factory in the region.
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Yet, in Buffalo, Dole spoke to a small group of factory workers who were mostly Democrats.
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Waller's double-glazing business was caught up in the plague when hooligans set his small factory on fire.
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Like the electric motor, the internal-combustion engine was soon used in all kinds of small factories and shops.
■ NOUN
car
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I was working in a car factory at the time.
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Read in studio A fire has caused thousands of pounds worth of damage at a car factory .
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Like many of the city's estates, it was built for car factory workers.
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Unions at the car factory say they are delighted that bosses have rewarded workers for their efforts with major investment.
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Soon it will also be the site of a £300m car factory .
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Dad worked at the local car factory .
closure
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Many factory closures are on the way, with perhaps as many as 600,000 jobs at risk.
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The province has become sadly familiar with news of lay-offs and redundancies, factory closures and company collapses.
floor
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Components were stacked in piles all over the factory floor like the contents of an attic.
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Rumors swept up from the factory floor and lofted back down again from the cubicles of middle management.
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They went through a series of corridors until they reached the factory floor .
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Such an agreement, however, has clearer links with the factory floor than the consulting room.
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He moved off the factory floor and into management with the same manufacturing firm.
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But socialism was doomed unless power remained on the factory floor and flowed upwards, rather than downwards.
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Down on the factory floor , automatic control had the expected virtue of moderating high-powered energy sources as mentioned earlier.
garment
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For nearly three decades, he worked in Woodbury at a garment factory near his home.
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Minnie had three children and continued to work almost constantly in the garment factories .
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She started working in the Baltimore garment factories , helping with newsletters and worker organization.
gate
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People must turn up at the proverbial factory gates fresh, fit and ready to toil.
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Mr Peters asks the highly relevant question: why do so many workers leave their talents at the factory gate ?
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The second order relates to the banning of meetings in the vicinity of the factory gates .
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The danger of an upturn in inflation was highlighted today in figures showing the price of goods leaving the factory gate .
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Cars were pouring out of the factory gates when he reached them and two buses added to the congestion.
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City economists also worried that factory gate price inflation was proving difficult to curb.
work
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I suppose it's really just like factory work - just as boring.
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Girls, even, can learn factory work or serve in restaurants.
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I tried everything - engineering, factory work - but I needed a fresh-air life.
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His jobs included digging ditches, coal-mining and factory work .
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She was overjoyed to find she earned a much higher wage than for her factory work .
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Many things have to be put in to make a factory work .
worker
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A glossy magazine designed to satisfy the CEOs ego may go wide of the mark with the factory workers .
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Fewer factory workers are losing fingers or getting sick.
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Like everybody from factory workers to opera stars, writers were supposed to serve the totalitarian state and its purposes.
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Where are the sons of longshoremen and black factory workers from the South?
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Streets which once throbbed with dock and factory workers and their families were now deserted.
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In both metallurgical and textile industries almost half the factory workers were employed in plants of over 1,000 workers.
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Aircraft factory workers were the highest paid and in 1940 De Havilland reported average earnings of £5.53p weekly.
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In Table 5.1 housewives' experiences of monotony, fragmentation and speed are compared with those of a sample of factory workers .
■ VERB
build
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Suppose in the long run the industry can build more identical factories .
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Already, Idec Pharmaceuticals is looking at building a factory in Texas or another non- California site.
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He is building a factory to make cigarettes and would like to make shoes, ice-cream, scent, vitamins and china.
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A raft of foreign-owned firms have built new factories .
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Rows of terraced houses for the workers, and later shops, were built near the factories .
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Farrakhan, upon his return, said he would accept the money to build homes, factories and schools.
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Starting out as a cowboy movie extra, he built a comedy factory .
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No rush to build yet To be sure, there is no flood of biotechs rushing to build factories .
close
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He comes, and after a heated discussion he commits himself to closing down the factory by 1992.
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The Boeing Co., the region's largest employer, closed its factories and dismissed workers early.
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Politicians will not close important factories or meddle with publicly owned bodies that pollute.
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Q: Why did we close a Johnson Brothers factory last year if the brand is so important?
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Northern Foods is axing 3,000 jobs and closing smaller factories in order to cut group costs.
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Meco International has sold one of its subsidiary companies and so is closing a factory and centralising production on to another site.
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It's the same with closing a factory .
move
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His car had been damaged at least six times and he'd moved his double glazing factory because of three attempted robberies.
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A hundred years ago we moved from farm to factory .
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The po solution is to move the factory upstream of itself so that its effluent is drawn into its intake.
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He moved off the factory floor and into management with the same manufacturing firm.
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Rose moved around her factory aware all the time of the undercurrents from the women working there.
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Bombed out of one small premises, Grandpa had moved from factory to factory, finally ending up in what was now Belmodes.
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Much less coal has to be moved and so factory owners have a freer choice of position.
open
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In late 1996 Mercedes-Benz will open a transplant factory in Vance, Alabama.
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Would you open a new factory there now?
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Sacks of asbestos fibre had been opened in the factory , releasing dust into the atmosphere.
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He opened a factory at Chigwell, Essex, in 1785.
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He opened a second factory in Gode in 1854.
produce
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Next years competition brief is to design an energy-efficient ceramics factory producing heavy-duty decorative tiles for buildings.
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Given that the factory producing the chocolate is miles away, the resulting confections are really quite good.
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Back in Vilangulu they own a factory that can produce up to 1,000 meals a day.
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State ownership of all factories producing cars?
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Lowry showed how the factories produced people deprived of identity.
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But different factories have produced a different quality of chemical.
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I recently visited a factory that produces heavy engineering goods.
run
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A harsh criticism, perhaps, since Laura was no longer running the factories on a daily basis.
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Motors, by the millions, bestowed with selves, now run factories .
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This is not needed merely to run the factories properly - which is what foreign managers' present jobs mainly amount to.
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Amsale, who sometimes works seven days a week running her dress factory , still controls her hours.
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Consumers will pay what they have to pay to heat their homes, drive their cars and run their factories .
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Unwritten rules may be a precarious basis on which to run a factory .
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The car rattled along, crossing the myriad narrow gauge loco tracks that ran between the factories lining the route.
set
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He set up a small factory in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1895.
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Waller's double-glazing business was caught up in the plague when hooligans set his small factory on fire.
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This time she took him to a room in a large apartment block set near factories and oil-storage tanks.
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Bric-a-brac was donated and sold on the stall which was set up in the factory canteen.
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Rich Athenians set up small factories in which the chief, but not the sole, source of labour was slaves.
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While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire.
visit
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I recently visited a factory that produces heavy engineering goods.
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Next, they visit a yogurt factory and learn about yogurt and how it is made.
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The writers spent a year talking to workers and visiting the factory to make sure their production was as authentic as possible.
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What did a liberated woman wear to visit a factory ?
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A Department of Labour inspector visited the factory on 28 May.
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You are also invited to visit a clog factory to watch the craftsmen at work.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
factory girl/shop girl/office girl
factory-made/German-made/homemade etc
the factory floor
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a shoe factory
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After starting with a handful, the factory now employs 2, 800 workers.
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Children used to have to work in dreadful conditions, in factories and mines.
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In factories and at work, as well as communities and localities?
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In the factories of bioengineering firms and in the chips of neural-net computers, the organic and the machine are merging.
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Inputs from these sensor measurements are compared to factory yield and performance.
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Paradoxically, Soviet planners turned the primitive conditions and shortage of supplies at the factories to their advantage, Overy says.
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The lead factory on the outskirts of town is such a wreck that you don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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Wharton-Tigar recalls quite well the sardine factory controlled by Reichmann and Hollander.