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in·dus·try
\ˈin(ˌ)dəstrē, -ri sometimes ə̇nˈd-\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English industrie, from Middle French, skill, employment involving skill, from Latin industria diligence, from industrius diligent, from Old Latin indostruus, from indu, endo in, within + -struus (akin to Latin struere to arrange, build) — more at indigenous, structure
1. obsolete
a. : skill, cleverness
b. : a use or application of skill or cleverness
2.
a. : diligence in an employment or pursuit : steady attention to business
< all his long years of service gone … all his industry and diligence thrown away — James Joyce >
< sewing with no great amount of industry on pieces of white material — Lillian Hellman >
b. : habitual or constant work or effort
< a man of fine mental powers … unceasing industry, and simple charm — C.B.Fisher >
< he had immense industry but he didn't know how to think — Archibald Marshall >
3.
a. : systematic labor especially for the creation of value
< had left the country … to live by his own industry in England — Charles Dickens >
b. : a department or branch of a craft, art, business, or manufacture : a division of productive or profit-making labor; especially : one that employs a large personnel and capital especially in manufacturing
< put his money into an industry that sold its goods on an international scale >
< all the large industries in the city >
c. : a group of productive or profit-making enterprises or organizations that have a similar technological structure of production and that produce or supply technically substitutable goods, services, or sources of income
< the automobile industry >
< the air transport industry >
< the poultry industry >
< the smuggling of gold, liquor, and other contraband has become a secondary industry — James Reach >
< the tourist industry >
d. : manufacturing activity as a whole
< conditions that were auspicious for the nation's industry >
< an energetic promoter of New England industry — Current Biography >
4.
a. : a well-developed technique of a people especially as evidenced in archaeological discoveries
b. : an assemblage of prehistoric implements giving clear evidence that they were used by one group of men |