production line

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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).

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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