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Industry
| Industry Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Industry?
[n] the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"
[n] persevering determination to perform a task; "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues"
[n] the people engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "each industry has its own trade publications"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Industry: diligence |
industriousness |
manufacture
Related Terms | Find terms related to Industry: activity |
aktiebolag |
Aktiengesellschaft |
application |
ardor |
assiduity |
assiduousness |
balance of trade |
big business |
body corporate |
bulldog tenacity |
business |
business dealings |
business establishment |
bustle |
cartel |
chamber of commerce |
combine |
commerce |
commercial affairs |
commercial enterprise |
commercial relations |
compagnie |
company |
concentration |
concern |
conglomerate |
conglomerate corporation |
consolidating company |
consortium |
constancy |
copartnership |
corporate body |
corporation |
dealing |
dealings |
determination |
diligence |
dirty work |
diversified corporation |
dogged perseverance |
doggedness |
donkeywork |
drudgery |
dynamism |
earnestness |
effort |
employment |
endurance |
energeticalness |
energy |
engrossment |
enterprise |
exertion |
fag |
fair trade |
fatigue |
fervor |
fidelity |
firm |
free trade |
grind |
handiwork |
handwork |
holding company |
house |
hustle |
indefatigability |
industriousness |
insistence |
insistency |
intercourse |
joint-stock association |
joint-stock company |
labor |
laboriousness |
lick |
lick of work |
loyalty |
manual labor |
manufacture |
market |
marketing |
mercantile business |
merchantry |
moil |
multilateral trade |
obstinacy |
operating company |
pains |
painstaking |
painstakingness |
partnership |
patience |
patience of Job |
permanence |
perseverance |
persistence |
persistency |
pertinaciousness |
pertinacity |
plodding |
plugging |
plunderbund |
pool |
preoccupation |
production |
public utility |
rat race |
reciprocal trade |
relentlessness |
resolution |
restraint of trade |
scut work |
sedulity |
sedulousness |
single-mindedness |
singleness of purpose |
slavery |
slogging |
small business |
spadework |
stability |
stamina |
staying power |
steadfastness |
steadiness |
stick-to-itiveness |
stock company |
strenuousness |
stroke |
stroke of work |
stubbornness |
sweat |
syndicate |
task |
tenaciousness |
tenacity |
the business world |
the marketplace |
thoroughgoingness |
thoroughness |
tirelessness |
tiresome work |
toil |
trade |
trade association |
traffic |
travail |
treadmill |
truck |
trust |
unilateral trade |
unremittingness |
unsparingness |
unswerving attention |
utility |
vehemence |
vigor |
work |
zealousness
See Also | aluminum business |
aluminum industry |
apparel industry |
arms industry |
assiduity |
assiduousness |
automobile industry |
aviation |
banking industry |
business |
business enterprise |
chemical industry |
coal industry |
commercial enterprise |
commercial enterprise |
computer industry |
concentration |
construction industry |
cottage industry |
determination |
electronics industry |
entertainment industry |
fashion business |
fashion industry |
film industry |
garment industry |
growth industry |
Hollywood |
housing industry |
industrial enterprise |
industrialisation |
industrialization |
lighting industry |
market |
movie industry |
munitions industry |
oil business |
oil industry |
plastics industry |
production |
purpose |
rag trade |
refining industry |
securities industry |
sedulity |
sedulousness |
service industry |
shipbuilding industry |
shoe industry |
show biz |
show business |
sign industry |
steel industry |
studiousness |
sunrise industry |
tobacco industry |
toy business |
toy industry |
trucking industry
Industry In Webster's Dictionary
\In"dus*try\, n.; pl. {Industries}. [L. industria, cf.
industrius diligent; of uncertain origin: cf. F. industrie.]
1. Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either
bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity;
-- opposed to {sloth} and {idleness}; as, industry pays
debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.
We are more industrious than our forefathers,
because in the present times the funds destined for
the maintenance of industry are much greater in
proportion to those which are likely to be employed
in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two
or three centuries ago. --A. Smith.
2. Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business;
especially, one which employs much labor and capital and
is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the
iron industry; the cotton industry.
3. (Polit. Econ.) Human exertion of any kind employed for the
creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of
capital or wealth; labor.
Syn: Diligence; assiduity; perseverance; activity;
laboriousness; attention. See {Diligence}.
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