automaker

auto +‎ maker

automaker (plural automakers)

1. One who manufactures automobiles; typically used to refer to a large corporation such as General Motors.
   • 2004, Amory B. Lovins, E. Kyle Datta, Odd-Even Bustnes, Jonathan G. Koomey, Nathan J. Glasgow, Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security, page 136:

     With such competition looming, one might suppose that U.S. automakers would embrace tighter domestic efficiency requirements to help them gird for the challenge.

   • 2008, Brian Munroe, Car Buying Revealed: How to Buy a Car and Not Get Taken for a Ride‎, page 9:

     By overpaying these engineers, the expenses of the domestic automakers went up as well.

   • 2008, Joseph J. Fucini, Working for the Japanese‎, page 14:

     Becoming president of the UAW when he did, Bieber inherited the task of organizing the plants that Japanese automakers and suppliers had begun building in America in the early 1980s to circumvent the “voluntary quotas” the Japanese government had placed on exports to the United States.

   • 2018, Jackie Wattles, Charles Riley, Why President Trump's obsession with German cars is misplaced‎:

     If Trump wants American automakers to sell more cars across the Atlantic, slapping tariffs on German cars wouldn't help get that done, experts say.

• manufacturer

• (automobile manufacturer): carmaker, truckmaker

• carbuilder (a phantonym)

• automaking