factory outlet

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noun

a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.

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How to use factory outlet in a sentence

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The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
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A plastic factory, a hardware supplier, and shipping–and-receiving giants like Fed-Ex and DHL are neighboring businesses.
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Not just a candy factory but a candy store, and everything in it free.
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It was afterwards used as a schoolroom in connection with Winfield's factory.
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It was, of course, the suppressed emotional energy finding another outlet.
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A small but beautiful river debouches from the lake at its west end, and the town is grouped around this outlet.
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A Lowell factory-girl would consider this entirely out of character, and a New-York milliner would be shocked at the idea of it.
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Think of this, ye who talk, not always without reason, of "factory slaves" and the meagre rewards of labor in America.
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British Dictionary definitions for factory outlet

factory outlet

factory shop

noun

a usually low-rent site leased by a factory to sell its end-of-line or damaged stock direct to the customer at reduced prices

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