clothing factory

collocation in English

meaningsofclothingandfactory

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clothing
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkləʊ.ðɪŋ/us
/ˈkloʊ.ðɪŋ/
clothes, especially clothes of a particular type or those worn in a ...
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factory
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfæk.tər.i/us
/ˈfæk.tɚ.i/
a building or set of buildings where large amounts of goods are made ...
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(Definition ofclothingandfactoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The only outstanding claims are in respect of his employment as a civilian foreman in aclothingfactory.
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I was dealing yesterday with the case of aclothingfactorywhich wants 50 workers.
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Nowadays, in a modernclothingfactory, it takes 148 separate processes to make an ordinary two-piece suit.
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Neither should a commercial traveller employed by aclothingfactory.
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Then, again, oneclothingfactoryhas one-third of its staff unemployed every week.
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It has an excellent, though small,clothingfactory, with an adequate number of power-driven machines.
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There are female and male employees in theclothingfactory.
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On the west side there is aclothingfactory, part of which, as a matter of fact, overlaps into the slaughterhouse itself.
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We have a record of 560 hours being worked in an engineering works, and a record of over 600 in a wholesaleclothingfactory.
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Production in aclothingfactorycan be switched offshore with one telephone call from a buyer—as many factories across the country have regularly discovered.
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An oldclothingfactoryhas been rebuilt and it houses several training schemes, co-operatives and small businesses.
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If the experiments are not successful, it may be necessary to consider the possibility of setting up a smallclothingfactoryfor this purpose elsewhere.
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Apart from the question of the sewing machinery in aclothingfactorythere are conditions of employment which would be looked into by any safety first committee.
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Various brooks provided water power for industry, including four furniture factories and aclothingfactory.
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Industries included, at various times, furniture mills, a tannery, several machine shops, a woolen textile mill and aclothingfactory.
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From the 1940s through 1987, the building housed aclothingfactory.
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For some years he was employed as a clerk in aclothingfactory, and later in an engineering shop.
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Like many immigrants, she worked in aclothingfactoryduring the day, but was able to attend night high school.
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At the age of 13, she began to work, first in a cigar factory, then in aclothingfactoryas a seamstress in 1912.
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