industry
the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry;the steel industry.
any general business activity; commercial enterprise: the Italian tourist industry.
trade or manufacture in general: the rise of industry in Africa.
the ownership and management of companies, factories, etc.: friction between labor and industry.
systematic work or labor.
energetic, devoted activity at any work or task; diligence: Her teacher praised her industry.
the aggregate of work, scholarship, and ancillary activity in a particular field, often named after its principal subject: the Mozart industry.
Archaeology. an assemblage of artifacts regarded as unmistakably the work of a single prehistoric group.
Origin of industry
1Other words for industry
Other words from industry
- in·ter·in·dus·try, adjective
- min·i-in·dus·try, noun, plural min·i-in·dus·tries.
- non·in·dus·try, adjective
- pre·in·dus·try, noun, adjective
- pro·in·dus·try, adjective
- sub·in·dus·try, noun, plural sub·in·dus·tries.
- su·per·in·dus·try, noun, plural su·per·in·dus·tries.
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How to use industry in a sentence
If I was going to have to rebuild my life in this industry — and we all had an opportunity to do this — I didn’t want to rebuild it 100 percent like the life that I had before.
Christian Puglisi Is Closing His Influential Copenhagen Restaurants. COVID Is Only Partly to Blame | Rafael Tonon | September 17, 2020 | EaterSix months after the crisis became a pandemic, the TV and streaming industry seems to be settling into a new normal than more closely resembles the old normal than may have been expected back in March-April.
How the future of TV and streaming has – and hasn’t – been reshaped so far by 2020 | Tim Peterson | September 16, 2020 | Digiday“You don’t get to cross pollinate like that from industry to industry,” she said.
Fortune Connect is bringing its conference business to a larger audience, with a higher price tag | Kayleigh Barber | September 15, 2020 | DigidayDocuments obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that almost from the start of the crisis, the meatpacking industry and the USDA were largely focused on how to keep workers on the line.
Emails Show the Meatpacking Industry Drafted an Executive Order to Keep Plants Open | by Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung | September 14, 2020 | ProPublicaLayoffs are all-too-common in the media industry, especially during an economic downturn.
‘The needle is starting to move’: Inside Turner Sports’ plan to fix Bleacher Report’s diversity and inclusion problem | Tim Peterson | September 14, 2020 | Digiday
Services like Airbnb, Yelp, and yes, Uber are disrupting long-established industries, from taxis to hotels.
Why Do ‘Progressives’ Want to Ban Uber and AirBnB? | Adam Thierer, Christopher Koopman | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt the time, screen quotas were far more common among film producing industries.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBarron Industries Michigan-based company that produces metal castings for various industries.
Increasingly, as these industries develop, on-site solar and wind is a way of guaranteeing a lower price for electricity.
These are not start-ups or struggling new media companies, but established businesses in old school industries.
He was experienced in the North Atlantic trade, in seal, whale and cod fishing and other Newfoundland industries.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowHe had fired, remembering that cold-blooded slaughter at the Weedham Industries plant.
Its chief industries today are biscuit making and seed farming, which give employment to ten thousand people.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphySurprisingly enough, some industries such as the tobacco industry and the rayon and cellophane industries expanded considerably.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyThe ninth largest employer of workers engaged in manufacturing is the paper and allied industries.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. Torpey
British Dictionary definitions for industry
/ (ˈɪndəstrɪ) /
organized economic activity concerned with manufacture, extraction and processing of raw materials, or construction
a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the output of a specified product or service: the steel industry
industrial ownership and management interests collectively, as contrasted with labour interests
manufacturing enterprise collectively, as opposed to agriculture
diligence; assiduity
Origin of industry
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