industry

Betekenis

1. The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.
2. Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
3. Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
4. The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
5. Automated production of material goods.
6. A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.

Koppelteken as

in‧dus‧try

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈɪndəstɹi/

Etimologie

From Middle English industry, industrie, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”), from industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ūst-, ūstr-, stem of ūrō (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ūstrī (“industry”), Old English andūstrian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).

Sinne

The dominant industry is grazing .