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industry
/ˈɪn.də.stɹi/
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What does industry mean?
noun
- The tendency to work persistently.
- Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
- Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
More meanings (4)
noun
- The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
- Automated production of material goods.
- A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
proper noun
- 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.
To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.
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Afterward they went outside, wandering about among the mazes of buildings in which was done the work auxiliary to this great industry.
This delicious amusement restored him in a measure to cheerfulness, but seemed to Rowland on the whole not to stimulate his industry.
I pass over the very beautiful explanations in which M. Troplong, discussing labor and industry, displays the whole wealth of his eloquence.