industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪndəstɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɳˈɖəsʈɾi/
Forms: form: industries
Etymology: From Middle English industry, industrie, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”), from industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ūst-, ūstr-, stem of ūrō (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ūstrī (“industry”), Old English andūstrian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).
Senses: examples: text: Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
text: The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
ref: 1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224:
text: The line ends at Narvik. Eight years ago the whole town was in ruins, but the industry of the Norwegian people has rebuilt it entirely.
ref: 1953 June, C. E. N. Watts, “Railway Through Lapland”, in Railway Magazine, page 384:
text: England's win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield.
ref: 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: industriousness
diligence
hardworkingness
coordinate_terms: conscientiousness
grit#Noun
glosses: The tendency to work persistently.
examples: text: The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
text: The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
text: Long before popular music evolved its many genres and subgenres, the industry was driven by a simple one-size-fits-all philosophy uncomplicated by impassioned debates over the origins of trip hop or the difference between deatchore and screamo.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51:
text: Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
ref: 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
topics: business
economics
sciences
glosses: Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
examples: text: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
examples: text: There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
text: [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
examples: text: It is a classical and restricted view both of industry (it excludes service sectors, now 70% of the GDP of developed economies)[…]
ref: 2007, Dominique Guellec with Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, The economics of the European patent system, page 122:
topics: computing
engineering
intellectual-property
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
patent-law
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Automated production of material goods.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
Synonyms: sense: tendency to work persistently
word: diligence
sense: tendency to work persistently
word: industriousness
sense: tendency to work persistently
word: application
sense: businesses of the same type
word: sector
sense: businesses of the same type
word: field
topics: manufacturing
business
word: businesses that produce goods
Derived terms: agroindustry
antiindustry
automotive industry
bioindustry
captain of industry
cottage industry
cyberindustry
defensive industry
evergreen industry
film industry
finance industry
food services industry
health care industry
heavy industry
hive of industry
Industry 4.0
industry discount
industry plant
industrywide
industrywise
infant industry
interindustry
intraindustry
knight of industry
light industry
megaindustry
microindustry
multiindustry
nanoindustry
nonindustry
preindustry
primary industry
proindustry
proto-industry
quaternary industry
racial grievance industry
secondary industry
service industry
sex industry
smokestack industry
software industry
subindustry
sunrise industry
sunset industry
superindustry
tertiary industry
twilight industry
Related terms: industrial
industrious