FABRICATOR Definition & Meaning

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fabricator

[ fab-ri-key-ter ]

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noun

a person who makes things by art or skill and labor:
He’d spent some time as a fabricator of high-end military circuit boards.
a person or company that makes something by assembling parts or sections; manufacturer:
With its lapped metal panels, the complexity of the design required top skills, and the fabricator Purly Manufacturing did an outstanding job.
a person who devises or invents something, especially a lie or a fictional narrative or character:
The document paints him as a serial exaggerator and fabricator rather than a heroic whistleblower.
a person who produces something fake or counterfeit:
The fabricators of these forged archeological artifacts are still fooling some people even today.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of fabricator¹

First recorded in 1600–10; from Latin �ڲ��ٴǰ�, equivalent to fabricat(e) ( def ) + -or ²( def )

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At the time he was still being managed as a sex offender, but was working in the Glasgow area as a fabricator for a company based in Linwood, Renfrewshire.

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Under the bill, businesses and workers could not do stonecutting without certification, and beginning in 2027, stone slab manufacturers would be banned from providing their products to any fabricators that lack such certification.

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Cambria attorney Lindsay Weiss said the company had provided warnings, including labels on the slabs themselves, and offered free training to the “fabricators” who cut, grind and polish the material to shape it into countertops.

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Rains, a miner and countertop fabricator, had also been one of the few people holding onto hope of finding buried treasure in Havilah.

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Moving to Schuylkill County, in Pennsylvania, in 2021, he had access to local manufacturers, including a metal fabricator who primarily built roller coasters.

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