ALL meanings of industry
in·dus·try
I i - noun industry manufacturing 1
- noun industry type of commerce 1
- noun industry in general 1
- noun industry industrial management 1
- noun industry diligence 1
- noun plural industry the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry. 1
- noun plural industry any general business activity; commercial enterprise: the Italian tourist industry. 1
- noun plural industry trade or manufacture in general: the rise of industry in Africa. 1
- noun plural industry the ownership and management of companies, factories, etc.: friction between labor and industry. 1
- noun plural industry systematic work or labor. 1
- noun plural industry energetic, devoted activity at any work or task; diligence: Her teacher praised her industry. 1
- noun plural industry the aggregate of work, scholarship, and ancillary activity in a particular field, often named after its principal subject: the Mozart industry. 1
- noun plural industry Archaeology. an assemblage of artifacts regarded as unmistakably the work of a single prehistoric group. 1
- noun industry (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. 1
- uncountable noun industry Industry is the work and processes involved in collecting raw materials, and making them into products in factories. 0
- countable noun industry A particular industry consists of all the people and activities involved in making a particular product or providing a particular service. 0
- countable noun industry If you refer to a social or political activity as an industry, you are criticizing it because you think it involves a lot of people in unnecessary or useless work. 0
- uncountable noun industry Industry is the fact of working very hard. 0
- noun industry organized economic activity concerned with manufacture, extraction and processing of raw materials, or construction 0
- noun industry a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the output of a specified product or service 0
- noun industry industrial ownership and management interests collectively, as contrasted with labour interests 0
- noun industry manufacturing enterprise collectively, as opposed to agriculture 0
- noun industry diligence; assiduity 0
- noun industry skill or cleverness 0
- noun industry the application of this 0
- noun industry earnest, steady effort; constant diligence in or application to work 0
- noun industry systematic work; habitual employment 0
- noun industry any particular branch of productive, esp. manufacturing, enterprise 0
- noun industry any large-scale business activity 0
- noun industry manufacturing productive enterprises collectively, esp. as distinguished from agriculture 0
- noun industry the owners and managers of industry 0
- noun industry (Countable Noun) (business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. 0
- noun industry (Uncountable Noun) (economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services. 0
- noun industry (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises. 0
- noun industry (European software patents) Automated production of material goods. 0