(1):
(n.) A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.
(2):
(n.) A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.
(3):
(n.) The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.