smokestack industry
originally 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.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Business Week.
- nerve current
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- nerve glue
- nerve growth factor
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- nervelessly
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- nerve net
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- nerve poison