industry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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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”).
Inflected forms:
form: industries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The tendency to work persistently.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
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?
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.
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.
gloss: Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
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.
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.
gloss: Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
uncountable
examples: There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
[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.
gloss: Automated production of material goods.
pos: noun
tags: Europe
countable
uncountable
examples: It is a classical and restricted view both of industry (it excludes service sectors, now 70% of the GDP of developed economies)[…]
gloss: A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: businesses that produce goods
Related words: industrial
industrious
Derived words: 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
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