Resembling or characteristic of a factory; having the organized, mechanized, or mass-production qualities of a factory.
From 'factory' plus '-like' (resembling or similar to). A modern descriptive compound formed by standard English word-building to describe things with factory characteristics.
When people describe schools, hospitals, or restaurants as 'factorylike,' they mean something important: efficiency without humanity. It's a telling comment on how industrial thinking has infiltrated places where it might not belong.
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