industry | |
1. n. The tendency to work persistently. Diligence. | |
Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy. | |
2. n. (business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade. | |
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. | |
3. n. (economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services. | |
4. n. (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises. | |
There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism. | |
5. n. (European software patent law) Automated production of material goodscite-web | |
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10. n. (archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex. | |