I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a manufacturing/shipping/publishing etc company
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I’m working for a printing company at the moment.
build/manufacture/produce sth to ... specifications
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The airport building had been constructed to FAA specifications.
computer-aided manufacturing
manufacture goods
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Local industries were created to manufacture goods that were previously imported.
manufactured goods (= made in large quantities using machines )
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Imports of manufactured goods have increased rapidly.
manufacturing industry (= industries in which goods are produced in factories )
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The last twenty years has seen a decline in manufacturing industry.
manufacturing/industrial/agricultural etc output
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Korea’s agricultural output
oil/agricultural/manufacturing exports
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Oil exports from Iraq have resumed.
textile industry/design/manufacture etc
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textile design and technology
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a textile mill
the agricultural/manufacturing/industrial sector (= the part of the economy to do with growing food/producing goods )
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As the industrial sector grew, more and more of the population moved to the cities.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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car
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A facility that's said to represent all the best in car manufacturing worldwide.
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There was no need to sue Ford for a car manufactured with defective brakes.
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The bigger premises increased Lotus' overheads, which made low volume production cars unprofitable to manufacture .
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In car manufacturing alone, the state has seen employment jump by 25 percent between 1989 and the end of 1994.
chemical
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The human growth hormone is the next in a long line of chemicals to be manufactured industrially, using recombinant-DNA techniques.
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They could pass laws to control the importation of chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine, similar to laws in the United States.
company
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Pluserix was withdrawn by the Government on the advice of the company manufacturing it.
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A small number of biomedical companies already have pilot manufacturing plants in San Diego.
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Several members of the two committees have links with drug companies manufacturing meningitis vaccines.
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Increased sales of the hardware could bolster companies manufacturing games to be used on the console, which ran short before Christmas.
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The company also manufactures a line of denim clothing for the Express retail chain, Viramontes said.
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Currently the companies manufacture these products under the trade names of Altuglas and Plexiglas.
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The company agreed to begin manufacturing them again if Hops would buy at least 100.
drug
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This old fish-drying plant has been revived to manufacture the drug , which is sent south for use in the trial.
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The cost of manufacturing a capsule of drug is a fraction of the cost it sells for.
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It also would increase criminal penalties for possession of methamphetamine-related chemicals or equipment with the intent to manufacture the drug .
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By manufacturing most of the drugs itself, the government reduced costs by as much as 79 percent.
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It also broke precedent by not publishing the name or location of the company that will manufacture the drug .
firm
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In its 77-year history, laughs Gauntlett, the firm has manufactured some 11,000 cars, rather fewer than three a week.
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The number of firms in the manufacturing sector has been so far taken as given.
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These carbon fibre rollers are used by firms manufacturing machines for a variety of uses including films, textiles and paper.
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Meretek, a Nashville firm that manufactures the test, claims it is 95 percent accurate in detecting H. pylori.
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Small firms operate a scheduled working week 10 percent longer than large firms and in manufacturing it is 15 percent greater.
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Other firms are manufacturing radios, wired and fiber-optic telecommunications, military equipment and satellite receivers in San Diego.
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J., supplier of flannel sheets, knowing that the firm manufactured knitted jersey crib sheets.
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Namely the number of firms in the manufacturing sector is given for every country.
goods
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The rich world keeps the South wedded to commodity production by putting up tariff barriers to manufactured goods .
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In that case the plaintiffs and the defendants were two companies who manufactured similar goods .
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Like other Southerners, Atlantans felt shortchanged when Northern capitalists transformed cheap Southern raw materials into manufactured goods .
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If one doesn't have the immediate outlets, one seldom bothers to manufacture the goods .
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The people who manufacture and sell goods and services must want their custom and must understand its value.
industry
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Estimators working in the construction industry and manufacturing businesses have different methods of and motivations for estimating costs.
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Still other industries , such as manufacturing , will find it more difficult to accommodate regulatory change.
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It was Adam Smith, interestingly, who first used industry to refer to manufacturing and other productive activities.
plant
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The plant , which will manufacture around 50,000 vehicles a year, will begin operations in 1992.
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Before making the welfare address, Dole toured a local plant that manufactures stainless steel tanks and employs several former welfare beneficiaries.
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The plant will manufacture the V6 engine for luxury versions of the Cavalier model.
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For example, a product manager in the marketing department may discover that one plant in manufacturing is producing defective products.
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Midwestern plants no longer manufacture many of these wares.
state
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In car manufacturing alone, the state has seen employment jump by 25 percent between 1989 and the end of 1994.
textile
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Woven textile cloths are manufactured mainly from natural fibres such as cotton or linen although some have a proportion of man made fabrics.
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There were a few modest local industries: soap and candle-making, tanning, cooperage, some textile manufacturing , silk-spinning.
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Other aspects of the influence of the vestry upon the nature of textile manufacturing in the parish will also be considered.
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The Slaters were one of the most influential families in Norwich history and the history of textile manufacturing in this country.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bile is manufactured by the liver.
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He works for a small company manufacturing aluminium products.
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If the media can manufacture stories like this, then who are we supposed to believe?
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The car was manufactured in Germany until 1961.
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The car was designed, developed, and manufactured in collaboration with Honda.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Britain still has a bicycle industry; frames and complete bicycles are manufactured here, though most of the components are imported.
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If he could see the bricks in their piles on the site, he would know that they had actually been manufactured.
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Lord McLuskey says they manufacture false confessions, plant evidence and commit perjury.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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cloth
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By 1850, papermaking had ceased, Clutterbuck re-converting the mill for cloth manufacture .
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The patrons of all this art were merchants in the thirteenth century, who profited from cloth manufacture .
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This was the last bastion of the Hooper empire, cloth manufacture ending in 1934.
textile
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Contests over perquisites were not confined to textile manufacture .
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Hand-loom weavers in the various textile manufactures were the most ubiquitous of manufacturing workers.
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In textile manufacture women were first and foremost the spinners.
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In 1759 Joseph Massie estimated that 228,000 families were supported by metal, wood and textile manufactures .
■ VERB
involve
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A smaller and smaller part of the population is directly involved in industrial manufacture .
use
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At an early date, the inland brine springs of Droitwich and Cheshire were discovered and used for the manufacture of salt.
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The patents involve devices used in the manufacture of semiconductors.
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Uses: is used in the manufacture of nylon.
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This dimensional stability is an important consideration in choosing a polymer to use in the manufacture of an item.
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For a short period it was used for the manufacture of bedding materials and mattresses.
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A different alkali would have been used for the manufacture of later soda glasses.
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These monkeys are used in the manufacture of household articles and headdresses by ail the tribes in whose domain they are found.
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Cobalt compounds are also used in semi-conductor manufacture and to coat storage battery electrodes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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During World War II, steel supplies were used in the manufacture of weapons.
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Systems of this type have been used in car manufacture .
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The firm now employs 640 people in the manufacture of frozen foods.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, since this reaction does not use tritium, it does not require the manufacture or transportation of this dangerous substance.
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An ingenious path to early integration of hydrogen into Martian propellant manufacture has been suggested by Bob Zubrin of Lockheed-Martin.
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In south-east Leicestershire two anthropoid shells of local manufacture are to be found in an extensive seventeenth-century vault.
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Indeed food manufacture as a whole underwent a transformation.
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It is a man's shoe of Western manufacture , recently polished and not cheap.
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Selection of a purchase could well depend upon the standard of manufacture .
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They stressed the manufacture of uncomplicated and easily repaired weapons.