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industry

/ˈɪn.də.stɹi/

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What does industry mean?

noun

  1. The tendency to work persistently.
  2. Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
  3. Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
More meanings (4)

noun

  1. The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
  2. Automated production of material goods.
  3. A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.

proper noun

  1. A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɪn.də.stɹi/

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Also, the new regime is permitting the establishment of private enterprises of 20 or fewer employees in services, handicrafts, and small-scale industry.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1990 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #14
To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.
Karl Marx; Friedrich EngelsThe Communist ManifestoProject Gutenberg ebook #61
More book examples (3)
Afterward they went outside, wandering about among the mazes of buildings in which was done the work auxiliary to this great industry.
Upton SinclairThe JungleProject Gutenberg ebook #140
This delicious amusement restored him in a measure to cheerfulness, but seemed to Rowland on the whole not to stimulate his industry.
Henry JamesRoderick HudsonProject Gutenberg ebook #176
I pass over the very beautiful explanations in which M. Troplong, discussing labor and industry, displays the whole wealth of his eloquence.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonWhat is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of GovernmentProject Gutenberg ebook #360