basic industry

British  

noun

1. an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy

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Example Sentences

Expert witness Bryan Carpenter, a Mississippi-based specialist in firearms safety on film sets, said Baldwin’s commands infringed on basic industry safety protocols and responsibilities of the armorer.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024

Ms. Masterson led many of the sessions, imparting basic industry knowledge, like the fact that “lunch” on set is exactly six hours from call time — even if call is at 3 in the morning.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2017

It’s hard to think of another basic industry of comparable size in which future demand has dissipated so rapidly.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2015

Nor that they simply made the wrong decision about how to solve the basic industry problem.

From Forbes • Sep. 19, 2014

For coal had been unionized already before the War, the railways first during the War, but the third basic industry, steel, was not touched either before or during the War.

From A History of Trade Unionism in the United States by Perlman, Selig