industry synonyms

industry

n.

  1. Attention to work

    diligence, activity, assiduity, persistence, application, patience, intentness, perseverance, enterprise, hard work, zeal, energy, dynamism, pains, inventiveness; see also attention 2, care 1, diligence.

    Antonyms laziness*, sloth*, idleness. *

  2. Commercial enterprise

    manufacturing, business, commerce, trade, enterprise, production, mass production, assembly-line production; see also business 1.

  3. Business as a division of society

    big business, management, corporation officers, manufacturers, shareholders, high finance, entrepreneurs, capital, private enterprise, monied interests, stockholders. See syn. study at business.business.

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