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postfactory

postfactory adjective: after a product leaves the factory.

Adjective

postfactory (not comparable)

  1. After a product leaves the factory.
    • She had some additional safety recommendations: keep your feet flat on the cart floor, avoid sudden turns, use the hand grip above your head for stability and don’t make any postfactory changes to the cart, like disabling the speed governor.2009 April 27, Bill Pennington, “Golfers Test Limits of Good Sense in Golf Carts”, in New York Times

Origin of postfactory

From post- + factory.

Questions about postfactory

What does postfactory mean?
Postfactory means after a product leaves the factory.
What part of speech is postfactory?
Postfactory is an adjective.

Words near postfactory in the dictionary

  1. postextrasystolic
  2. postextubation
  3. postface
  4. postfaces
  5. postfact
  6. postfactory
  7. postfactual
  8. postfactum
  9. postfader
  10. postfailure
  11. postfame

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