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machinofacture

machinofacture noun: the production of goods through the use of machines.

Noun

machinofacture (countable and uncountable, plural machinofactures)

  1. The production of goods through the use of machines.
    • Then Professor Reuleaux goes on to show that where “machinofactures" are produced , it can especially be noticed how the laborer is gradually surrendered to capital .1887, United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1854-1903), United States. Department of State. Bureau of Statistics, Emigration and Immigration
    • Marx himself declared that it was only with the technical basis of machinofacture for the production of further machines that capitalism created for itself a 'fitting technical foundation' (Marx, 1976, p. 376). This transition to machinofacture began early in the nineteenth century in several...1985, Phil Blackburn, Rod Coombs, Kenneth Green, Technology, Economic Growth and the Labour Process, page 35

Verb

machinofacture (third-person singular simple present machinofactures, present participle machinofacturing, simple past and past participle machinofactured)

  1. To produce by means of machinofacture.
    • In 8a ( ii ) the point is made that only man machinofactures products using blueprints and such .1975, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler, The Great Ideas Today, 1975
    • Capital enjoys real economic ownership of the productive asset writing through its real economic ownership of the forces of production that capital uses in the direct, rationalized production of the writing-identified-writer who, according to design, must pay to become the self-purchasing alienable...2007, JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory

Forms of machinofacture

Noun
pluralmachinofactures
Verb
third-person singular presentmachinofactures
present participlemachinofacturing
past participlemachinofactured
pastmachinofactured

Origin of machinofacture

From machine + -o- + -facture.

Questions about machinofacture

What does machinofacture mean?
Machinofacture means the production of goods through the use of machines.
What part of speech is machinofacture?
Machinofacture can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of machinofacture?
The plural of machinofacture is machinofactures.

Words near machinofacture in the dictionary

  1. machinized
  2. machinizes
  3. machinizing
  4. machinoclast
  5. machinoclasts
  6. machinofacture
  7. machinofactured
  8. machinofactures
  9. machinofacturing
  10. Machins
  11. machinule

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