industry
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɪndəstɹi/, /ˈɪndʌstri/
industry
- (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The Ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
- Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The Ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, gbooks :
- Long before popular music evolved its many genres and subgenres, the industry was driven by a simple one-size-fits-all philosophy uncomplicated by impassioned debates over the origins of trip hop or the difference between deatchore and screamo.
- The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
- The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, gbooks :
- (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
- (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
- There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
- (European software patent law) Automated production of material goods.
- (archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
- (tendency to work persistently) diligence; application
- (businesses of the same type) sector; field
- (businesses that produce goods) manufacturing
- French: industrie
- German: Industrie
- Italian: industria
- Portuguese: indústria
- Russian: промы́шленность
- Spanish: industria
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