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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"
Generic synonyms: Commercial Enterprise
Specialized synonyms: Aluminum Business, Aluminum Industry, Apparel Industry, Fashion Business, Fashion Industry, Garment Industry, Rag Trade, Banking Industry, Banking System, Automobile Industry, Aviation, Chemical Industry, Coal Industry, Computer Industry, Construction Industry, Housing Industry, Electronics Industry, Entertainment Industry, Show Biz, Show Business, Film Industry, Movie Industry, Growth Industry, Lighting Industry, Arms Industry, Munitions Industry, Oil Business, Oil Industry, Refining Industry, Plastics Industry, Market, Securities Industry, Service Industry, Shipbuilding Industry, Shoe Industry, Sign Industry, Steel Industry, Sunrise Industry, Tobacco Industry, Toy Business, Toy Industry, Trucking Industry
Derivative terms: Industrialist
2. Noun. The organized action of making of goods and services for sale. "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"
Specialized synonyms: Cottage Industry, Production, Industrial Enterprise, Industrialisation, Industrialization
Generic synonyms: Business, Business Enterprise, Commercial Enterprise
Examples of category: Point System, Privatise, Privatize, Rat
Derivative terms: Manufacture
3. Noun. Persevering determination to perform a task. "Frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues"
Generic synonyms: Determination, Purpose
Specialized synonyms: Assiduity, Assiduousness, Concentration, Sedulity, Sedulousness, Studiousness
Derivative terms: Diligent, Diligent, Industrious, Industrious, Diligent, Industrious
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
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