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machinofacture en · NOUN

Etymology

From machine + -o- + -facture.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The production of goods through the use of machines.
   • First, because machinofacture is capital-intensivem, and because developing nations are cash-poor, capital moves in and out of developing countries with relatively little capture of the value-added beyond wages to labor; and despite defense of a machinofacture development strategy on the grounds of technology transfer, there is little evidence such transfers take place 2006, Dennis Conway, Nik Heynen, Globalization's Contradictions:
   • Then Professor Reuleaux goes on to show that where “machinofactures" are produced , it can especially be noticed how the laborer is gradually surrendered to capital . 1887, United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1854-1903), United States. Department of State. Bureau of Statistics, Emigration and Immigration:
   • Not quite, for it is a fact that the best-constructed system of automatic machinofacture, even if provided with a continuous supply of fuel and raw materials, would soon grind to a standstill without human attention. 2000, Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environment, page 308:
   • Marx himself declared that it was only with the technical basis of machinofacture for the production of further machines that capitalism created for itself a 'fitting technical foundation' (Marx, 1976, p. 376). This transition to machinofacture began early in the nineteenth century in several sectors but only by the middle of the century did it become firmly dominant over manufacture in the construction of machinery. 1985, Phil Blackburn, Rod Coombs, Kenneth Green, Technology, Economic Growth and the Labour Process, page 35:

Forms

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machinofactures	Number=Plur		lexicographic

machinofacture en · VERB

Etymology

From machine + -o- + -facture.

Meanings

1. To produce by means of machinofacture.
   • In 8a ( ii ) the point is made that only man machinofactures products using blueprints and such . 1975, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler, The Great Ideas Today, 1975:
   • Capital enjoys real economic ownership of the productive asset writing through its real economic ownership of the forces of production that capital uses in the direct, rationalized production of the writing-identified-writer who, according to design, must pay to become the self-purchasing alienable use-value that capital machinofactures for the purpose of transforming writing into writing-as- exploitation. 2007, JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory:
   • But attempts to relate either of them to trends in urbanisation or increases in machinofacturing or the rise of the middle classes seem less plausible. 2008, Michael Jonathan Sessions Hodge, Before and After Darwin:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
machinofactured	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
machinofactured	Tense=Past		lexicographic
machinofactures	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
machinofacturing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic