cottage industry

noun

the production, for sale, of goods at home, as the making of handicrafts by rural families.
any small-scale, loosely organized industry.

cottage industry

an industry in which employees work in their own homes, often using their own equipment

First recorded in 1920–25

Nevertheless, a cottage industry has grown up around the case.

How Bill Simmons and company have turned NFL indignation into a cozy little cottage industry.

Pedometers and the cottage industry of smartphone-friendly wearable trackers are great for encouraging a more activity lifestyle.

Ailes disparaged it by saying that it was part of “the cottage industry” dedicated to attacking him and Fox.

There is a cottage industry of declinists, but they have vastly overstated their case.

And individuals can make their own solar cookers easily, or start a cottage-industry to manufacture them for others.

Out in the country again, going westwards, the cottage industry of weaving is apparent in nearly every cottage one sees.

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