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Definition of Industry

1. Noun. The people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise. "Each industry has its own trade publications"

2. Noun. The organized action of making of goods and services for sale. "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"

3. Noun. Persevering determination to perform a task. "Frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues"

Definition of Industry

1. n. Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.

Definition of Industry

1. Noun. The tendency to work persistently. ¹

2. Noun. (countable business economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. ¹

3. Noun. (uncountable economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services. ¹

4. Noun. (context: in singular economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises ¹

5. Noun. (context: European software patent law) Automated production of material goods(cite web ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Industry

1. a group of productive enterprises [n -TRIES]

Medical Definition of Industry

1. The aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principle product, as "the automobile industry", "the steel industry". It includes the ownership and management of companies, factories, industrial plants, etc. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Industry

industrialists industrialization industrializations industrialize industrialized industrializer industrializers industrializes industrializing industrially

industrials industries industrious industriously industriousness industry (current term) industry analyst industry discount industrywide industrywise

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Literary usage of Industry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"AND DOMESTIC industry BY MODERN industry. a. Overthrow of Co-operation based on Handicraft and on the Division of Labour. We have seen how machinery does ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1806)
"Capitation on trade and industry. But this tax, or capitation, on the proprietors of land, would have suffered a rich and numerous class of free citizens to ..."

3. Discussions in Economics and Statistics by Francis Amasa Walker, Davis Rich Dewey (1899)
"AMERICAN industry IN THE CENSUS. THE industry of the country—using that term as it is known to census-mongers—has special claims upon the authorities, ..."

4. OECD Economic Surveys by OECD Staff (2004)
"However, a November 2003 OECD survey of industrial gas consumers suggests that Russian industry purchases roughly 22 per cent of the gas it consumes at ..."

5. The Sugar-beet in America by Franklin Stewart Harris (1919)
"THE SUGAR-BEET IN AMERICA CHAPTER I GENERAL VIEW OF THE industry THE beet-sugar industry in America has but recently passed out of the experimental stage. ..."

6. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1869)
"it is likely to afford the greatest support to domestic industry, and to give revenue and employment to the greatest number of people of his own country. ..."

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