Industry

Quick meaning: Industry is a noun meaning (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.

Meaning

(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.

More Meanings

1. (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
2. (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
3. (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
4. (Europe software patent law) Automated production of material goods.
5. (archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.

Example Sentences

The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.

Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.

The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.

The line ends at Narvik. Eight years ago the whole town was in ruins, but the industry of the Norwegian people has rebuilt it entirely.

Word Forms

• industries

Synonyms for industry

Depending on context, synonyms include diligence, industriousness, application, field, hardworkingness, manufacture.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include diligence, industriousness, manufacture, manufacturing, activity, cause.

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