industry
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də noun, plural in·dus·tries for 1, 2, 7.
1.
the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
2.
any general business activity; commercial enterprise: the Italian tourist industry.
3.
trade or manufacture in general: the rise of industry in Africa.
4.
the ownership and management of companies, factories, etc.: friction between labor and industry.
5.
systematic work or labor.
6.
energetic, devoted activity at any work or task; diligence: Her teacher praised her industry.
7.
the aggregate of work, scholarship, and ancillary activity in a particular field, often named after its principal subject: the Mozart industry.
8.
Archaeology. an assemblage of artifacts regarded as unmistakably the work of a single prehistoric group.
Origin:
1475–85; earlier industrie < Latin industria, noun use of feminine of industrius industrious
1475–85; earlier industrie < Latin industria, noun use of feminine of industrius industrious
Related forms
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
Synonyms
6. application, effort, assiduity, industriousness.
6. application, effort, assiduity, industriousness.
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industry (ˈɪndəstrɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -tries | |
| 1. | organized economic activity concerned with manufacture, extraction and processing of raw materials, or construction |
| 2. | a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the output of a specified product or service: the steel industry |
| 3. | a. industrial ownership and management interests collectively, as contrasted with labour interests |
| b. manufacturing enterprise collectively, as opposed to agriculture | |
| 4. | diligence; assiduity |
| [C15: from Latin industria diligence, from industrius active, of uncertain origin] | |
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Word Origin & History
industry
late 15c., "cleverness, skill," from O.Fr. industrie, from L. industria "diligence," fem. of industrius "industrious, diligent," used as a noun, from early L. indostruus "diligent," from indu "in, within" + stem of struere "to build" (see structure). Sense of "diligence,
effort" is from 1530s; meaning "trade or manufacture" first recorded 1560s; that of "systematic work" is 1610s.
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Example sentences
As stores close, the industry loses much more than a retail outlet.
Another provision in the bill will expose relationships between physician researchers and the medical industry.
The solar industry is in a period of rapid flux right now.
These tactics are not going to improve the credit-card industry's dismal reputation.
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