manufacturer
English
Etymology
From manufacture + -er.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəɹə/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃɚɚ/, [ˌmɛənjəˈfækt͡ʃɚɚ]
Audio (US): (file)
- Hyphenation: man‧u‧fac‧tur‧er
Noun
manufacturer (plural manufacturers)
- A person or company that manufactures.
- The manufacturer produces parts for the car industry.
- Always return faulty goods to the manufacturer.
- The clothing manufacturer expanded overseas.
- 2010 October 29, Nick Saint, “Opinion: Google Android is only 'open' if you're the phone company”, in CNN[1], archived from the original on 12 August 2019:
- If consumers didn't like the bloatware that came with their phones, other manufacturers wouldn't include it, the bad actors would lose customers, and everyone would have to adjust.
- 2022 May 20, Jericka Duncan, “Family of Buffalo shooting victim may sue major gun manufacturer Remington”, in CBC News[2], archived from the original on 5 December 2024:
- The family of 53-year-old Andre Mackneil, who was gunned down in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket after purchasing his 3-year-old son's birthday cake, may go after a major gun manufacturer.
Derived terms
Translations
a person or company that manufactures
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French
Etymology
From manufacture + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
manufacturer
- (dated) to manufacture
Conjugation
Conjugation of manufacturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | manufacturer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | manufacturant /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | manufacturé /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/ |
manufactures /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/ |
manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/ |
manufacturons /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɔ̃/ |
manufacturez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁe/ |
manufacturent /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/ |
| imperfect | manufacturais /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛ/ |
manufacturais /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛ/ |
manufacturait /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛ/ |
manufacturions /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁjɔ̃/ |
manufacturiez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁje/ |
manufacturaient /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | manufacturai /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁe/ |
manufacturas /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa/ |
manufactura /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa/ |
manufacturâmes /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁam/ |
manufacturâtes /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁat/ |
manufacturèrent /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | manufacturerai /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁe/ |
manufactureras /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁa/ |
manufacturera /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁa/ |
manufacturerons /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
manufacturerez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁe/ |
manufactureront /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | manufacturerais /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
manufacturerais /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
manufacturerait /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
manufacturerions /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
manufactureriez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁje/ |
manufactureraient /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/ |
manufactures /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/ |
manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/ |
manufacturions /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁjɔ̃/ |
manufacturiez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁje/ |
manufacturent /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | manufacturasse /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁas/ |
manufacturasses /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁas/ |
manufacturât /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa/ |
manufacturassions /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
manufacturassiez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁa.sje/ |
manufacturassent /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | manufacture /ma.ny.fak.tyʁ/ |
— | manufacturons /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁɔ̃/ |
manufacturez /ma.ny.fak.ty.ʁe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “manufacturer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012