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international | factory |

As a proper noun international

is international airport, as the shortened form of an airport name.

As a noun factory is

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

international

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or having to do with more than one nation.
  • Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations.
  • Of or concerning the association called the International.
  • Independent of national boundaries; common to all people.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.}}
  • Foreign; of another nation.
  • See also

    * supranational

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sports) Someone who has represented their country in a particularly sport.
  • The United team includes five England internationals .
  • (sports) A game or contest between two or more nations.
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    factory

    English

    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.

    Synonyms

    * manufactory

    Derived terms

    * factory reset