industry
Plural: industries
Noun
- The manufacturing or production of goods; diligent activity.
- the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- "each industry has its own trade publications"
- the organized action of making of goods and services for sale
- "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"
- persevering determination to perform a task
- "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues"
- The tendency to work persistently.
- Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
- Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
- The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
- Automated production of material goods.
- A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
Examples
- Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
- The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
- The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
- The Words With Friends community shows great INDUSTRY in finding new strategies.
- There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
diligence, industriousness, manufacture, application, businesses that produce goods, field, hardworkingness, sector
Scrabble Score: 12
industry: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordindustry: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
industry: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary