1. The organized action of making goods and services for sale
   "American manufacture is making increased use of computers to control production";
   - industry
    
2. The act of making something (a product) from raw materials
   "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives";
   - fabrication, manufacturing

1. Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
   "They manufacture small toys"; "He manufactured a popular cereal";
   - fabricate, construct
    
2. Create or produce in a mechanical way
   "This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success"
    
3. Produce naturally
   "this gland manufactures a specific substance only"
    
4. Concoct something artificial or untrue
   "The tabloid manufactured a scandalous story";
   - fabricate, cook up [informal], make up, invent

Derived forms: manufactures, manufacturing, manufactured

Type of: bring forth, business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, concoct, create, creating from raw materials, dream up, hatch, hit on, make, produce, think of, think up

Encyclopedia: Manufacture