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production line

production line noun: a set of sequential operations established in a factory whereby materials are put through a refining process or components are assembled to make a finished article.

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Noun

production line (plural production lines)

  1. A set of sequential operations established in a factory whereby materials are put through a refining process or components are assembled to make a finished article.
    • As the glut of new orders placed in the optimistic pre-pandemic years (worth billions of pounds) reaches its conclusion, production lines in Newton Aycliffe, Derby and Newport face a potentially barren future - as well as job losses that will be devastating for their communities and supply chains.2024 March 20, Ben Jones, “Suppliers' uncertain wait for new trains”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 36

Forms of production line

pluralproduction lines

Questions about production line

What does production line mean?
Production line means a set of sequential operations established in a factory whereby materials are put through a refining process or components are assembled to make a finished article.
What part of speech is production line?
Production line is a noun.
What is the plural of production line?
The plural of production line is production lines.

Words near production line in the dictionary

  1. production car
  2. production code
  3. production externalities
  4. production externality
  5. production hell
  6. production line
  7. production lines
  8. production means
  9. production model
  10. production models
  11. production music

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