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basic industry

noun

  1. an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Seventy-five per cent of the workers in the basic industry are unable to send their children to school.

Agriculture is, or has been, the basic industry of nearly every race or nation that has succeeded.

That is the basic industry of all civilized life, farming, and woman's service in the farm home.

Agriculture is or has been the basic industry of nearly every race or nation that has succeeded.

Agriculture is the foremost and basic industry of the institution.

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