industry
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industry/ˈɪndəstri/
▶noun (pl. industries)
- 1 economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories.
■ a particular branch of economic or commercial activity: the car industry.
- 2 hard work: the kitchen became a hive of industry.
– origin ME: from Fr. industrie or L. industria ‘diligence’.
'industry' also found in these Oxford entries:
Academy award
- aerospace
- agro-
- agro-industry
- arsenal
- autoworker
- baron
- bioengineering
- blue-collar
- Board of Trade
- boilermaker
- Bollywood
- capitalism
- captain
- CBI
- cinema
- construction
- cottage industry
- Cro-Magnon
- differential
- factory floor
- FDDI
- filmi
- fine chemicals
- fishery
- Fordism
- glucose
- Grammy
- growth industry
- gypsum
- heavy chemicals
- heavy industry
- industrial
- industrial archaeology
- industrialist
- industrial relations
- ISA
- la-la land
- lean
- Leicester
- light industry
- marketization
- mature
- movie
- nationalize
- nexus
- NIREX
- operative
- output
