manufactured

Definitions

manufacture + -ed. manufacture = manu ('hand') + fact (fac, 'make') = literally 'made by hand,' though now it means industrial production. Manufactured can be literal (manufactured goods) or figurative (a manufactured crisis = one deliberately created). See manufacture.

Common Collocations

• 1.manufactured goods制成品
• 2.mass manufactured大规模制造的
• 3.manufactured crisis人为制造的危机

Example Sentences

• 1.

  Most of these goods are manufactured overseas.

• 2.

  The scandal felt like a manufactured controversy.