As nouns the difference between automobiles and carmaker
is that automobiles is plural of lang=en while carmaker is a company that manufactures automobiles.
As a verb automobiles
is third-person singular of automobile.
automobiles
English
Noun
(head)
Verb
(head)
(dated) (automobile)
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carmaker
English
Noun
(
en noun)
A company that manufactures automobiles.
* 2008 , Thomas H. Klier, James M. Rubenstein, Who Really Made Your Car? (page 24)
- Helper and Sako (1995) did detect some convergence in the way U.S. and Japanese carmakers work with suppliers.