industry

Meaning

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.

Concepts

industry

diligence

business

trade

perseverance

effort

industriousness

manufacturing

assiduity

enterprise

commerce

exertion

manufacture

sector

application

industries

activity

profession

line of business

frugality

operations

project

laboriousness

persistence

attempt

endeavor

try

factory

manufactory

plant

capital

manufactures

input industries

energy

painstaking

art

craft

assiduousness

market

toil

perseverence

sedulousness

estate

industrial

business line

line of work

medium

military service

hard work

zeal

undertaking

compel

constrain

involuntarily

property

vocation

commercial enterprise

industrial firm

manufacturage

sweatshop

Hyphenated as

in‧dus‧try

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɪndəstɹi/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

The dominant industry is grazing .