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noun
an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process.Compare assembly line, line1 (def. 29).
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Origin of production line
First recorded in 1930–35
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British Dictionary definitions for production line
production line
noun
a factory system in which parts or components of the end product are transported by a conveyor through a number of different sites at each of which a manual or machine operation is performed on them without interrupting the flow of production
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