industry

Meaning

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

Synonyms

diligence
C2
business
A1
trade
B1
manufacturing
C2
effort
B1
perseverance
21k
industriousness
assiduity
enterprise
C1
manufacture
C2
exertion
33k
commerce
C2
sector
C1
activity
B2

line of business

application
B2
industries
C1
profession
B2
manufactory
manufactures
40k
market
B1
medium
C1
military service
operations
B2
painstaking
36k
persistence
22k
plant
B1
🌱
project
B1
property
B1
sedulousness
sweatshop
32k
toil
C2
try
A1
undertaking
C2
vocation
C2
zeal
22k

business line

commercial enterprise

line of work

perseverence

input industries

manufacturage

art
A2
🎨
assiduousness
attempt
B2
capital
B2
compel
C2
constrain
craft
C1
endeavor
C2
Translations

Industrie
industrie
industria
industria
indústria
industrie

βιομηχανία

Fleiß
Gewerbe
Branche
nijverheid
vlijt
indústria
endüstri
Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɪndəstɹi/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle English
industry
Cognate with Old High German
ūstrī
Cognate with Old English
andūstrian
In summary

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”).

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