单词 | smokestack industry |
释义 | smokestack industryoriginally US noun 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 attributive, of, pertaining to, or characterized by the smokestack industries, as smokestack city, smokestack economy, etc. Origin1970s; earliest use found in Business Week. |
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