industry

industry
[[t]ɪ̱ndəstri[/t]]
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industries
1) N-UNCOUNT Industry is the work and processes involved in collecting raw materials, and making them into products in factories.

British industry suffers through insufficient investment in research.

...in countries where industry is developing rapidly.

2) N-COUNT: oft n N A particular industry consists of all the people and activities involved in making a particular product or providing a particular service.

...the motor vehicle and textile industries.

...the Scottish tourist industry.

3) N-COUNT: usu sing, the supp N (disapproval) If you refer to a social or political activity as an industry, you are criticizing it because you think it involves a lot of people in unnecessary or useless work.

Some Afro-Caribbeans are rejecting the whole race relations industry...

The multibillion-dollar fitness industry rakes in fat profits from our hunger to look good.

4) N-UNCOUNT Industry is the fact of working very hard. [FORMAL]

No one doubted his ability, his industry or his integrity.


English dictionary. 2008.

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