agro-industry

[ ag-roh-in-duh-stree ]

/ ˈæg roʊˌɪn də stri /

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the large-scale production, processing, and packaging of food using modern equipment and methods.

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

First recorded in 1965–70

ag·ro-in·dus·tri·al, ag·ro·in·dus·tri·al

[ag-roh-in-duhs-tree-uhl], /ˌæg roʊ ɪnˈdʌs tri əl/, adjectiveag·ro-in·dus·tri·al·ist, ag·ro·in·dus·tri·al·ist, noun

The fashion industry could never, would never, state its exclusion of black models overtly.
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But now his politics were offending the progressive sensibilities of the American film industry.
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The airline industry objects that sometimes these deployable recorders can pop out without cause, spreading needless alarm.
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Religious profiteering has spread beyond the tourism industry.
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In 2015 I am looking forward to working with more people in the industry and doing crazier and crazier scenes!
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His superior talents and untiring industry were under the direction of philanthropic and Christian impulses.
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But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.
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Here and there exceptional industry or extraordinary capacity raised the artisan to wealth and turned the "man" into the "master."
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Peace, also—or peace under the old conditions of industry—is infinitely wasteful of human energy.
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Industrial society, they say, must be reorganized from top to bottom; private industry must cease.
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