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antifactory

antifactory adjective: opposing a factory or factories in general.

Adjective

antifactory (comparative more antifactory, superlative most antifactory)

  1. Opposing a factory or factories in general.
    • Such ignorance becomes the more — and more sadly — ironic when we realize that mill workers commonly grounded their antifactory stance in the same web of republican values as did many townspeople.1985, Steven Hahn, Jonathan Prude, The countryside in the age of capitalist transformation, page 92

Forms of antifactory

comparativemore antifactory
superlativemost antifactory

Origin of antifactory

From anti- + factory.

Questions about antifactory

What does antifactory mean?
Antifactory means opposing a factory or factories in general.
What part of speech is antifactory?
Antifactory is an adjective.

Words near antifactory in the dictionary

  1. antifa
  2. antiface
  3. antifaces
  4. antifaction
  5. antifactions
  6. antifactory
  7. antifactual
  8. antifadant
  9. antifadants
  10. antifade
  11. antifadent

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