assembly lines
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pluralof assembly line.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
assembly linenounan 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.
Example Sentences
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Subcontractors including Boeing, L3Harris and Northrop Grumman have broken ground on new assembly lines to meet soaring demand for electronics, rocket motors and other components needed for the weapons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
To offset the immense fixed costs of running idle assembly lines, legacy European and UK automakers are opening their doors to Chinese rivals.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Both missiles use shared British and French technology, and President Emmanuel Macron is looking at setting up local assembly lines for Scalp missiles in Ukraine.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
The near-decade gap between Bombardier's assembly lines falling silent and De Havilland starting its own saw supply chains wilt.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Somewhere about this time, I left the Gar Wood factory and I went to work for the Ford Motor Company, one of the Lincoln- Mercury Division assembly lines.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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