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{
"term": "manufacture",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "manufacture",
"heSheIt": "manufactures"
},
"pastSimple": "manufactured",
"pastParticiple": "manufactured",
"ingForm": "manufacturing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to make goods in large quantities, using machines",
"sensetop": "manufacture something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "manufactured goods"
},
{
"text": "This company manufactures the equipment used to make contact lenses."
}
],
"synonyms": "mass-produce",
"topics": ["Business"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to invent a story, an excuse, etc.",
"sensetop": "manufacture something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a news story manufactured by an unscrupulous journalist"
},
{
"text": "The evidence against him had been largely manufactured."
},
{
"text": "There were claims that the entire row had been manufactured by the press."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to produce a substance",
"sensetop": "manufacture something",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Vitamins cannot be manufactured by our bodies."
},
{
"text": "Plants use the sun's light to manufacture their food."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃə(r)/",
"audio": "ma/manufacture/manufacture__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃəz/",
"audio": "ma/manufacture/manufactures__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃəd/",
"audio": "ma/manufacture/manufactured__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərɪŋ/",
"audio": "ma/manufacture/manufacturing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃər/",
"audio": "ma/manufacture/manufacture__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərz/",
"audio": "ma/manufacture/manufactures__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərd/",
"audio": "ma/manufacture/manufactured__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃərɪŋ/",
"audio": "ma/manufacture/manufacturing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (as noun, denoting something made by hand): from French (re-formed by association with Latin manu factum ‘made by hand’), from Italian manifattura. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent."
}