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assembly line

noun

an arrangement of machines, tools, and workers in which a product is assembled by having each perform a specific, successive operation on an incomplete unit as it passes by in a series of stages organized in a direct line.

assembly line

noun

a sequence of machines, tools, operations, workers, etc, in a factory, arranged so that at each stage a further process is carried out

assembly line

A line of factory workers and equipment along which a product being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed.

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Assembly lines are found in many industries but are particularly associated with automobile manufacturing.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of assembly line¹

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

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Little has been made public about his adult life — other than he held a string of short-term jobs, working on an electronics assembly line and as a school bus monitor for special needs children.

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"India's low-cost assembly lines may survive, but value-added growth is in danger."

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I’m using that Midwestern catchphrase because Detroit is where we find the three Bishop sisters, whose auto industry-generated family fortune has ground to a halt along with many of the region’s assembly lines.

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While western multi-national companies like Apple are increasingly looking towards India to diversify their assembly lines away from China, India is still dependent on Chinese components to make these phones.

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There’s that one Johnny Cash song — I don’t know the name of it, but it’s about him working on an assembly line and he keeps stealing parts?

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