Noun

(factories)

(obsolete) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

The position or state of being a factor.

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

* , chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories , it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=7 citation , passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}

A device which produces or manufactures something.

(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

* 2010 , Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew, Inside the Microsoft Build Engine

The task factory is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.

Noun

(en noun)

A group of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.

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, title=The Mirror and the Lamp , chapter=2 citation , passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}

In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.

(slang) A protruding belly; a paunch.

* 1918 , (Katherine Mansfield), ‘Prelude’, Selected Stories , Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91:

'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation .'

* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 316:

He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.