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1.nounA trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
2.nounThe position or state of being a factor.
3.nounA building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
4.nounA device which produces or manufactures something.
5.nounA factory farm."chicken factory; pig factory"
6.nounIn a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
7.nounA police station.
8.adjective(of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock."See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory."