Factory
Factory noun - A building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods.
Usage example: the new factory will create hundreds of much-needed jobs
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Synonyms for Factory
Shop is a synonym for factory in plant topic. In some cases you can use "Shop" instead a noun "Factory", when it comes to topics like workshop, building, manufacturing plant. popular alternative
Shop
Shop noun - A building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods.
Usage example: a machine shop
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Synonyms for Shop
Factory is a synonym for shop in plant topic. You can use "Factory" instead a noun "Shop", if it concerns topics such as workshop, building. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| sweet | sweet factory | sweet shop |
| burning | burning factory | burning shop |
| good | good factory | good shop |
| expensive | expensive factory | expensive shop |
| Other adjectives: full, specific, complete, original, small, actual, entire, real, successful, big, new, abandoned, hidden, mysterious, titular, strange, local, nearby, magical, aforementioned. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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The Gun Runners company, appearing in Fallout and Fallout: New Vegas, live in a post-apocalyptic world where laws do not exist; hence, they are automatically legitimate gun factory/shop owners.
Source: Arms Dealer - The giant silos, a guy walking through a machine shop/factory, weird bondage fetishes on a raft with two guys wearing gas masks — none of this has anything to do with the song itself.
Source: Lyrics/Video Mismatch -
She comments that one would think her son would have more shoes since his father works in a shoe factory, Rebecca's father (a shoemaker and owner of his shop) comments he used to work in one and had to use cardboard to walk about.
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Shop and Factory. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/factory/shop
Factory & Shop. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/factory/shop>.
Shop or Factory. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/factory/shop.
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