industry
/ˈɪn.də.stɹi/ noun B1- The tendency to work persistently. · Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
- Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade. · 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.
- Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
- 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.
- Automated production of material goods.
- A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
Plural industries
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“Oh, how I should like to see these products of your industry and patience.”
‘You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.’
I have devoted myself to industry; I study the useful arts.
“Confiteor!” said Caderousse, putting the diamond on his little finger; “I was mistaken; but those thieves of jewellers imitate so well that it is no longer worthwhile to rob a jeweller’s shop—it is another branch of industry paralyzed.”
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