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Definition of industry in English: industrynounPlural industries ˈɪndəstriˈɪndəstri 1mass noun Economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories. new investment incentives for British industry Example sentencesExamples - Governments should encourage the wider dispersion and implementation of industry's voluntary initiatives and agreements and sharing of best practices.
- The union is now the biggest in the private sector and manufacturing industry.
- Some systematic changes can be descried in European industry before the factory.
- Raw materials for her industry and food for her people increasingly had to be imported.
- The arrival of the homes is the result of a decline in the manufacturing industry.
- Costs of smelters scrap metal and other problems are having a major impact on manufacturing industry.
- I have never regarded public ownership as the best way to manage manufacturing industry.
- It has to solve the problem of poverty and develop industry if the process is to advance.
- Once again, the town's manufacturing industry bore the brunt of the bad news.
- Manufacturing industry has suffered greatly in the Bradford area in recent years.
- Cotton manufacturing was the chief industry but there was also a brewery, a tannery and a brickworks.
- Mining and industry are replacing agriculture as the leading economic activities.
- To encourage European industry to implement environmentally sound policies, the EU has put several initiatives in place.
- Manufacturing and industry produced a large range of products aimed at many different markets.
- Perhaps even the gloomy cloud hanging over the manufacturing industry has a silver lining.
- In North America factories and jobs in industry migrated from north to south.
- It has been happening on a very large scale in manufacturing industry in Britain.
- It fights to ensure that ownership of land, factories, industry and banks remains the same.
Synonyms manufacturing, production, fabrication, construction - 1.1count noun, with adjective or noun modifier A particular form or branch of economic or commercial activity.
Example sentencesExamples - He shouldn't be too hard to find when you consider how the male grooming industry is booming.
- The logic of the marketing model lies in the changing revenue base for media industries.
- No doubt the ban has been a hard blow to some parts of the hospitality industry.
- In terms of layoffs, the hardest hit sectors are the auto industry and the high tech sector.
- This is a tribute to all those who work so hard in York's tourism industry.
- In the airline industry emotional labour is vital to the success of the product.
- Do you think that the music industry makes it hard for more artists to take risks?
- It would be hard to disagree with the objectives of the international aid industry.
- However, they do not make any concessions to the hard work it takes to be in the music industry.
- Media and creative industries are being courted to move into their own quarter around the border of the two cities.
- It isn't hard for me to imagine people in the entertainment industry going through the same thing.
- The court is siding with the entertainment industry in its effort to curb online piracy.
- One might speculate on the influence of entertainment industries in the media here.
- There may be scope here for new solar energy industries to be developed to power such conversion.
- The prices have been hitting the chocolate industry hard all over the city.
- The computer industry is just now starting to struggle to that level of reliability.
- Keeping up with the Kiwis now is hard work, as the wine industry continues to grow like topsy
- The technology industry has a poor track record in attracting female applicants.
- The scheme can also help another struggling rural industry - coastal sea fishing.
- Energy industry representatives will meet this week to address the problems.
Synonyms business, trade, field, line, line of work, line of business, commercial enterprise, service - 1.2informal count noun with adjective or noun modifier An activity or domain in which a great deal of effort is expended.
Example sentencesExamples - Another possible approach might examine Chaucerian criticism as a marketplace of ideas: how market-like is the ‘Chaucer industry’?
- The Mozart industry has thrown down the glove, challenging musicians and listeners to search out every nook in which a Mozart note may have hidden.
Synonyms business, trade, field, line, line of work, line of business, commercial enterprise, service
2mass noun Hard work. the kitchen became a hive of industry Example sentencesExamples - On some occasions three courts were sitting simultaneously and it was a hive of industry and justice.
- His industry, inventiveness and hard work said a lot about the way Celtic play the game.
- Her sewing room, based in her farm in Fife, which she shares with her fiancé, is a hive of industry.
- By industry and thrift, labourers would have the chance to buy their own land.
Synonyms hard work, industriousness, diligence, assiduity, application, sedulousness, sedulity, conscientiousness, steadiness, tirelessness, persistence, pertinacity, perseverance, dedication, determination, rigour, rigorousness activity, busyness, energy, vigour, effort, labour, dynamism, zeal, productiveness archaic laboriousness, continuance rare perseveration
Origin Late Middle English (in sense 2): from French industrie or Latin industria 'diligence'. Definition of industry in US English: industrynounˈindəstrēˈɪndəstri 1Economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories. the competitiveness of American industry Example sentencesExamples - Raw materials for her industry and food for her people increasingly had to be imported.
- I have never regarded public ownership as the best way to manage manufacturing industry.
- Manufacturing industry has suffered greatly in the Bradford area in recent years.
- It fights to ensure that ownership of land, factories, industry and banks remains the same.
- It has to solve the problem of poverty and develop industry if the process is to advance.
- Mining and industry are replacing agriculture as the leading economic activities.
- In North America factories and jobs in industry migrated from north to south.
- The union is now the biggest in the private sector and manufacturing industry.
- Some systematic changes can be descried in European industry before the factory.
- To encourage European industry to implement environmentally sound policies, the EU has put several initiatives in place.
- Cotton manufacturing was the chief industry but there was also a brewery, a tannery and a brickworks.
- Governments should encourage the wider dispersion and implementation of industry's voluntary initiatives and agreements and sharing of best practices.
- The arrival of the homes is the result of a decline in the manufacturing industry.
- Manufacturing and industry produced a large range of products aimed at many different markets.
- Perhaps even the gloomy cloud hanging over the manufacturing industry has a silver lining.
- It has been happening on a very large scale in manufacturing industry in Britain.
- Costs of smelters scrap metal and other problems are having a major impact on manufacturing industry.
- Once again, the town's manufacturing industry bore the brunt of the bad news.
Synonyms manufacturing, production, fabrication, construction - 1.1with adjective or noun modifier A particular form or branch of economic or commercial activity.
Example sentencesExamples - In the airline industry emotional labour is vital to the success of the product.
- However, they do not make any concessions to the hard work it takes to be in the music industry.
- One might speculate on the influence of entertainment industries in the media here.
- Do you think that the music industry makes it hard for more artists to take risks?
- No doubt the ban has been a hard blow to some parts of the hospitality industry.
- The court is siding with the entertainment industry in its effort to curb online piracy.
- There may be scope here for new solar energy industries to be developed to power such conversion.
- It isn't hard for me to imagine people in the entertainment industry going through the same thing.
- It would be hard to disagree with the objectives of the international aid industry.
- The technology industry has a poor track record in attracting female applicants.
- He shouldn't be too hard to find when you consider how the male grooming industry is booming.
- In terms of layoffs, the hardest hit sectors are the auto industry and the high tech sector.
- The logic of the marketing model lies in the changing revenue base for media industries.
- The scheme can also help another struggling rural industry - coastal sea fishing.
- Energy industry representatives will meet this week to address the problems.
- Keeping up with the Kiwis now is hard work, as the wine industry continues to grow like topsy
- This is a tribute to all those who work so hard in York's tourism industry.
- The computer industry is just now starting to struggle to that level of reliability.
- The prices have been hitting the chocolate industry hard all over the city.
- Media and creative industries are being courted to move into their own quarter around the border of the two cities.
Synonyms business, trade, field, line, line of work, line of business, commercial enterprise, service - 1.2informal with adjective or noun modifier count noun An activity or domain in which a great deal of time or effort is expended.
Example sentencesExamples - Another possible approach might examine Chaucerian criticism as a marketplace of ideas: how market-like is the ‘Chaucer industry’?
- The Mozart industry has thrown down the glove, challenging musicians and listeners to search out every nook in which a Mozart note may have hidden.
Synonyms business, trade, field, line, line of work, line of business, commercial enterprise, service
2Hard work. the kitchen became a hive of industry Example sentencesExamples - Her sewing room, based in her farm in Fife, which she shares with her fiancé, is a hive of industry.
- By industry and thrift, labourers would have the chance to buy their own land.
- His industry, inventiveness and hard work said a lot about the way Celtic play the game.
- On some occasions three courts were sitting simultaneously and it was a hive of industry and justice.
Synonyms hard work, industriousness, diligence, assiduity, application, sedulousness, sedulity, conscientiousness, steadiness, tirelessness, persistence, pertinacity, perseverance, dedication, determination, rigour, rigorousness
Origin Late Middle English (in industry (sense 2)): from French industrie or Latin industria ‘diligence’. |