Cases of word usage

1) an enclosed apparatus with a fire, used for heating metals, making glass etc in a factory (furnace)

2) to prevent workers from entering a factory etc, e.g. during an argument between management or owners and the workers (lock out)

3) a worker or group of workers at the gates of a factory etc during a strike, to try to persuade others not to go to work (picket)

4) (of parts of a building) produced in a factory in advance (to be put together later) (prefabricated)

5) a machine in a factory made to act like a person (robot)

6) (of a manager, owner etc) to cause a factory etc to shut down (shut down)

7) a kind of long vehicle used for carrying vehicles from a factory (transporter)

8) a job in a business, factory etc for which a person is needed; a place available in a hotel etc (vacancy)

9) a person who works in a factory or in a semi-skilled job, especially people in the working-class; a person who works in the way mentioned or at the job mentioned (worker)

10) an occasion when workers continue to work in a factory etc that is threatened with closure (work-in)