Industry definition
Earnest, steady effort; constant diligence in or application to work.
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Ongoing work or study associated with a specified subject or figure.
The Civil War industry; the Hemingway industry.
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The definition of an industry is any large-scale business activity or a type of productive manufacture or trade.
An example of industry is the coal mining business.
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Manufacturing productive enterprises collectively, esp. as distinguished from agriculture.
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Energetic devotion to a task or an endeavor; diligence.
Demonstrated great intelligence and industry as a prosecutor.
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(obsolete) Cleverness or skill.
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A sector of an economy.
The advertising industry.
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The sector of an economy made up of manufacturing enterprises.
Government regulation of industry.
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A collection of artifacts or tools made from a specified material.
A Mesolithic bone industry.
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A standardized tradition of toolmaking associated with a specified tool or culture.
A stone hand-ax industry; the Acheulian industry.
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Systematic work; habitual employment.
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Skill or cleverness.
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The application of this.
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Any particular branch of productive, esp. manufacturing, enterprise.
The paper industry.
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Any large-scale business activity.
The tourist industry.
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The owners and managers of industry.
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(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.
Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
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(in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
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(European software patents) Automated production of material goods.
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(countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole.
The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
industry
Plural:
industriesOrigin of industry
- Middle English industrie skill from Old French from Latin industria diligence from feminine of industrius diligent ster-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old French industrie, from Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”), from industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ūst-, ūstr-, stem of ūrō (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ūstrī (“industry”), Old English andūstrian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).
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