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

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

Derived forms: manufacturing, manufactures, 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