| 单词 | smokestack industry |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmokestack industry smokestack industry n. originally U.S. any of the heavy manufacturing industries, typically coal-powered and associated with high levels of pollution and outmoded technology (usually in plural); also absol. used attributively, of, pertaining to, or characterized by the smokestack industries, as smokestack city, smokestack economy, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > [noun] > types of industry generally rural industry1735 heavies1900 sunset1906 cottage industry1911 light industry1916 heavy industry1932 resource industry1938 nuclear industry1954 growth industry1957 space industry1957 knowledge industry1959 sex industry1965 sunrise1972 smokestack industry1979 Tayacian1979 sausage fest1995 1979 Business Week 31 Dec. 118/2 The mostly bedrock, smokestack industry stocks that make up the Dow held little fascination for investors. 1980 N.Y. Times 24 Aug. i. 38/1 Now, with fewer resources to spend..the odds are to go with the winners... ‘The smokestack cities’ face the most problems, Mr. Sternlieb said. 1982 in Amer. Speech (1983) 58 179 This is not a smokestack economy as it was 10 years ago. 1983 Chicago Sun-Times 21 May 13 The new cliches about the decline of ‘smokestack industries’ have dramatic power when you drive past the miles of cold, quiet stacks along Lake Erie. 1985 Sunday Times 4 Aug. 51 Those lorries with gas cylinders, associated with the bygone days of smokestack industries, are also less important. 1988 Business Rev. Weekly 8 Apr. 6/2 For the past 10 years or so smokestack industries have been unpopular because they have been seen as pollutors of the environment. < as lemmas |
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