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n. Commercial production and sale of goods.

n. A specific branch of manufacture and trade: the textile industry. See Synonyms at business.

n. The sector of an economy made up of manufacturing enterprises: government regulation of industry.

n. Industrial management.

n. Energetic devotion to a task or an endeavor; diligence: demonstrated great intelligence and industry as a prosecutor.

n. Ongoing work or study associated with a specified subject or figure: the Civil War industry; the Hemingway industry.

n. Archaeology A collection of artifacts or tools made from a specified material: a Mesolithic bone industry.

n. Archaeology A standardized tradition of toolmaking associated with a specified tool or culture: a stone hand-ax industry; the Acheulian industry.

n. The tendency to work persistently.

n. Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole.

n. Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

n. The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.

n. Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness.

n. Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade

n. Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.

n. Habitual diligence in any employment or task, whether bodily or mental; sedulous attention to business; assiduity.

n. Productive labor; specifically, labor employed in manufacturing; manufacture; hence, a particular branch of work; a trade: as, the iron industry; the cotton industry: often used, in the plural, of trades in general: as, the arts and industries of a country.

n. Synonyms Application, Diligence, etc. (see assiduity); activity, laboriousness.

n. persevering determination to perform a task

n. the organized action of making of goods and services for sale

n. the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise

"The very word industry comes from the Middle English word industrie, or skill, and from the Latin industria, or diligence."

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assiduity    laboriousness    perseverance    diligence    attention    activity    labor    trade    business    manufacture   

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