Meanings
plural production lines
- businessA set of sequential operations established in a factory whereby materials are put through a refining process or components are assembled to make a finished article.
As the glut of new orders placed in the optimistic pre-pandemic years (worth billions of pounds) reaches its conclusion, production lines in Newton Aycliffe, Derby and Newport face a potentially barren future - as well as job losses that will be devastating for their communities and supply chains.
2024 March 20, Ben Jones, “Suppliers' uncertain wait for new trains”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 36
Synonyms & antonyms
nounmechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian пото́чна ли́ния
- пото́чна ли́ния (potóčna línija)set of operations
Catalan línia de producció
- línia de produccióset of operations
Chinese Mandarin 生產線 /生产线, 產線 /产线
- 生產線 /生产线 (shēngchǎnxiàn)set of operations
- 產線 /产线 (chǎnxiàn)set of operations
Dutch productielijn
- productielijnset of operations
Finnish tuotantolinja
- tuotantolinjaset of operations
French ligne de production
- ligne de productionset of operations
Hungarian gyártósor
- gyártósorset of operations
Irish líne tháirgthe
- líne tháirgtheset of operations
Italian linea di produzione
- linea di produzioneset of operations
Japanese 生産ライン, 製造ライン
- 生産ラインset of operations
- 製造ライン (seizō rain)set of operations
Korean 생산라인
- 생산라인 (saengsallain)set of operations
Norwegian Bokmål produksjonslinje
- produksjonslinjeset of operations
Polish linia produkcyjna
- linia produkcyjnaset of operations
Portuguese linha de produção
- linha de produçãoset of operations
Russian пото́чная ли́ния
- пото́чная ли́ния (potóčnaja línija)set of operations
Cite this entry
production line. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/production%20line
“production line.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/production%20line. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “production line,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/production%20line.
Source: production line on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.