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assembly line

noun

an arrangement of machines, tools, and workers in which a product is assembled by having each perform a specific, successive operation on an incomplete unit as it passes by in a series of stages organized in a direct line.

assembly line

a sequence of machines, tools, operations, workers, etc, in a factory, arranged so that at each stage a further process is carried out

assembly line

A line of factory workers and equipment along which a product being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed.

Assembly lines are found in many industries but are particularly associated with automobile manufacturing.

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

At break time, the entire assembly line would run over to play the machines that were ready to be shipped out.

These two women are assembly-line workers in the ultimate factory of patriarchy.

By the early 2000s, however, the pendulum was starting to swing back toward the old assembly-line model—with one big difference.

Amid this, however, New York occupied a central place in the assembly-line production of hits and musical acts.

“It's an assembly line,” says Chloe Hilliard, an up-and-coming African American New York City-based working stand up comic.

The kind they turn off the assembly line to hold up the fronts of pool parlors.

The man didn't look at him; he kept his eyes averted from both Lee and the blood-spattered assembly line.

It reminded Verkan Vail of some sort of industrial assembly-line operation.

At the very end of this assembly line a crane was loading a finished object onto a flat-bed trailer.

The assembly line of pushpots grew shorter, and the remaining monstrosities around the sidewall were plainly near to completion.

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