1. Produced in a large-scale industrial operation
   "The manufactured goods were shipped worldwide"

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

See also: factory-made

Type of: bring forth, concoct, create, dream up, hatch, hit on, make, produce, think of, think up

Encyclopedia: Manufactured