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
indutive
induviae
induvial
induviate
indwell
indwelled
indweller
indwellers
indwelling
indwelling catheter

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