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manufacturer

DEFINITIONS OF: manufacturer

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n someone who manufactures something

Synonyms:
producer
Examples:
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Cyrus Hall McCormick
United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884)
John Mercer
British maker of printed calico cloth who invented mercerizing (1791-1866)
Isaac Merrit Singer
United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875)
Eli Whitney
United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)
Will Keith Kellog
United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn; he established a company to manufacture the cereal (1860-1951)
Alfred Krupp
German arms manufacturer and son of Friedrich Krupp; his firm provided ordnance for German armies from the 1840s through World War II (1812-1887)
Peter Paul Mauser
German arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914)
Charles William Post
United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914)
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arms manufacturer
someone who manufactures arms and munitions
brewer
the owner or manager of a brewery
distiller
someone who distills alcoholic liquors
food manufacturer
a person who manufactures food products
sericulturist
a producer of raw silk
Type of:
maker, shaper
a person who makes things

n a business engaged in manufacturing some product

Synonyms:
maker, manufacturing business
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armorer, armourer
a manufacturer of firearms
bottler
a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages
auto maker, auto manufacturer, automaker, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker
a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles
computer business
a business that manufactures and sells computers
Type of:
business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
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