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industry en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɪn.də.stɹi/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
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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”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.
   • Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
   • England's win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield. 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
   • The line ends at Narvik. Eight years ago the whole town was in ruins, but the industry of the Norwegian people has rebuilt it entirely. 1953 June, C. E. N. Watts, “Railway Through Lapland”, in Railway Magazine, page 384:
   • The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid? 1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224:
2. (countable) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
   • Long before popular music evolved its many genres and subgenres, the industry was driven by a simple one-size-fits-all philosophy uncomplicated by impassioned debates over the origins of trip hop or the difference between deatchore and screamo. 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51:
   • The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
   • Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend. 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
   • The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
3. (uncountable) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
   • But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
4. (countable, singular, uncountable) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
   • [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages. 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
   • There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
5. (Europe, countable, uncountable) Automated production of material goods.
   • It is a classical and restricted view both of industry (it excludes service sectors, now 70% of the GDP of developed economies)[…] 2007, Dominique Guellec with Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, The economics of the European patent system, page 122:
6. (countable, uncountable) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.

Forms

Coordinates

grit · conscientiousness

Deriveds

nanoindustry · service industry · agroindustry · megaindustry · superindustry · antiindustry · preindustry · microindustry · finance industry · secondary industry · light industry · subindustry · nonindustry · industrywise · interindustry · tertiary industry · cyberindustry · bioindustry · aeroindustry · quaternary industry · industry plant · film industry · captain of industry · proto-industry · sunrise industry · health care industry · infant industry · sunset industry · multiindustry · twilight industry · sex industry · cottage industry · automotive industry · industrywide · software industry · evergreen industry · knight of industry · smokestack industry · primary industry · defensive industry · heavy industry · Industry 4.0 · industry discount · racial grievance industry · intraindustry · proindustry · hive of industry · food services industry

Descendants

इंडस्ट्री

Relateds

industrial · industrious

Synonyms

businesses that produce goods · diligence · industriousness · sector (businesses of the same type) · diligence (tendency to work persistently) · application (tendency to work persistently) · field (businesses of the same type) · industriousness (tendency to work persistently) · hardworkingness

Translations (242)

sk priemysel (businesses that produce goods) · hu odaadás (tendency to work persistently) · cmn 產業 /产业 (businesses that produce goods) · ug سانائەت (businesses that produce goods) · ja 工業 (businesses of the same type) · ru промы́шленность (businesses that produce goods) · ru произво́дство (businesses that produce goods) · fr industrie (businesses that produce goods) · sv bransch (businesses of the same type) · fi toimiala (businesses of the same type) · be галіна́ (businesses of the same type) · scn articianatu (businesses that produce goods) · cs píle (tendency to work persistently) · th อุตสาหกรรม (businesses that produce goods) · izh industria (businesses of the same type) · ta தொழிற்றுறை (businesses that produce goods) · ja 産業 (businesses that produce goods) · nl werklust (tendency to work persistently) · io industrio (businesses of the same type) · lv strādīgums (tendency to work persistently) · izh industria (businesses that produce goods) · es industria (businesses that produce goods) · ps صنعت (businesses that produce goods) · pl branża (businesses of the same type) · ms industri (businesses that produce goods) · ja 産業 (businesses of the same type) · fi teollisuudenala (businesses that produce goods) · pt indústria (businesses of the same type) · lt pramonė (businesses that produce goods) · ba эшсәнлек (tendency to work persistently) · kmr endustrî (businesses that produce goods) · et valdkond (businesses of the same type) · fi ala (businesses of the same type) · ru стара́тельность (tendency to work persistently) · it industria (businesses that produce goods) · nan-hbl 工業 /工业 (businesses that produce goods) · te పరిశ్రమ (businesses of the same type) · tr sanayi (businesses that produce goods) · nn industri (businesses that produce goods) · km ឧស្សាហកម្ម (businesses that produce goods) · gu ઉદ્યોગ (businesses that produce goods) · af industrie (businesses that produce goods) · he תעשייה (businesses that produce goods) · my စက်မှုလက်မှု (businesses that produce goods) · cs průmysl (businesses that produce goods) · ru про́мысел (businesses that produce goods) · he תעשייה (businesses of the same type) · fi uutteruus (tendency to work persistently) · sh инду̀стрија (businesses that produce goods) · be стара́ннасць (tendency to work persistently) · pt industriosidade (tendency to work persistently) · ja 工業 (businesses that produce goods) · lo ອຸດສາຫະກຳ (businesses that produce goods) · mk индустрија (businesses that produce goods) · sw tasnia (businesses of the same type) · tk senagat (businesses that produce goods) · da industri (businesses that produce goods) · ba тырышлыҡ (tendency to work persistently) · mn үйлдвэр (businesses that produce goods) · bg проми́шленост (businesses that produce goods) · lo ອຸດສາຫະກຳ (businesses of the same type) · bg промишленост (businesses of the same type) · cmn 工業 /工业 (businesses that produce goods) · uk стара́нність (tendency to work persistently) · mk дејност (businesses of the same type) · cs branže (businesses of the same type) · ba тармаҡ (businesses of the same type) · scn nnustria (businesses that produce goods) · ka მრეწველობა (businesses that produce goods) · hi उद्योग (businesses of the same type) · uk стара́ння (tendency to work persistently) · scn majistranza (businesses that produce goods) · mr उद्योग (businesses that produce goods) · ka ინდუსტრია (businesses that produce goods) · uz sanoat (businesses that produce goods) · sv industri (businesses of the same type) · nl sector (businesses of the same type) · el προκοπή (tendency to work persistently) · lv rūpniecība (businesses of the same type) · id industri (businesses that produce goods) · mn аж үйлдвэр (businesses that produce goods) · hu szorgalom (tendency to work persistently) · it settore (businesses of the same type) · et tööstus (businesses that produce goods) · uk інду́стрія (businesses that produce goods) · si උද්යෝගය (businesses that produce goods) · gl industria (businesses of the same type) · ja 業界 (businesses that produce goods) · kw hwel ober (businesses of the same type) · uk інду́стрія (businesses of the same type) · as উদ্যোগ (businesses of the same type) · hu buzgalom (tendency to work persistently) · lb Industrie (businesses that produce goods) · kk индустрия (businesses that produce goods) · az sənaye (businesses that produce goods) · yue 工業 /工业 (businesses that produce goods) · de Wirtschaftszweig (businesses of the same type) · sv gren (businesses of the same type) · fo ídnaður (businesses that produce goods) · te పరిశ్రమ (businesses that produce goods) · mk трудољубивост (tendency to work persistently) · nb industri (businesses that produce goods) · de Industrie (businesses that produce goods) · kk өнеркәсіп (businesses that produce goods) · da industri (businesses of the same type) · nl nijverheid (businesses that produce goods) · cs přičinlivost (tendency to work persistently) · uk га́лузь (businesses of the same type) · hy արդյունաբերություն (businesses that produce goods) · uk пи́льність (tendency to work persistently) · cmn 勤勉 (tendency to work persistently) · ga tionscal (businesses that produce goods) · bua ажаүйлэдбэри (businesses that produce goods) · ru индустри́я (businesses of the same type) · ru усе́рдие (tendency to work persistently) · tt сәнәгать (businesses that produce goods) · es industria (businesses of the same type) · tpi indastri (businesses of the same type) · ja 勤勉 (tendency to work persistently) · nb forretningsområde (businesses of the same type) · hu iparkodás (tendency to work persistently) · km ឧស្សាហៈ (tendency to work persistently) · my ကုန်ထုတ်လုပ်ငန်း (businesses that produce goods) · hi उद्योग (tendency to work persistently) · be прамысло́васць (businesses of the same type) · or ଉଦ୍ୟୋଗ (businesses that produce goods) · mi ahumahi (businesses that produce goods) · hu iparág (businesses of the same type) · rue промысел (businesses that produce goods) · kn ಕೈಗಾರಿಕೆಗಳು (businesses that produce goods) · tl kalalang (businesses that produce goods) · ko 산업 (businesses that produce goods) · ru инду́стрия (businesses that produce goods) · sq industri (businesses that produce goods) · ro industrie (businesses that produce goods) · ca indústria (businesses that produce goods) · ro branșă industrială (businesses of the same type) · be інду́стрыя (businesses that produce goods) · tl kalalang (businesses of the same type) · ja 業界 (businesses of the same type) · hi उद्योग (businesses that produce goods) · grc φιλεργία (tendency to work persistently) · uk працелю́бність (tendency to work persistently) · bg усъ́рдие (tendency to work persistently) · rsk индустрия (businesses that produce goods) · la industria (tendency to work persistently) · hu törekvés (tendency to work persistently) · ru трудолю́бие (tendency to work persistently) · fa-ira صَنْعَت (businesses that produce goods) · sl industrija (businesses that produce goods) · ba сәнәғәт (businesses that produce goods) · vi công nghiệp (businesses of the same type) · ky өнөр жай (businesses that produce goods) · bg индустрия (businesses of the same type) · be працаві́тасць (tendency to work persistently) · ru прилежа́ние (tendency to work persistently) · lv rūpniecība (businesses that produce goods) · my လုံ့လ (tendency to work persistently) · bg прилежание (tendency to work persistently) · ur صَنْعَت (businesses that produce goods) · th อุตสาหกรรม (businesses of the same type) · or ଶିଳ୍ପ (businesses that produce goods) · el εργατικότητα (tendency to work persistently) · ko 산업 (businesses of the same type) · pt indústria (businesses that produce goods) · lt pramonė (businesses of the same type) · km ឧស្សាហកម្ម (businesses of the same type) · ba егәрлелек (tendency to work persistently) · bg отра́съл (businesses of the same type) · nan-hbl 產業 /产业 (businesses that produce goods) · kw diwysyans (businesses that produce goods) · tr endüstri (businesses that produce goods) · sh indùstrija (businesses that produce goods) · hi इंडस्ट्री (businesses of the same type) · nl industrie (businesses that produce goods) · lv industrija (businesses of the same type) · ko 공업 (businesses that produce goods) · id ketekunan (tendency to work persistently) · be прамысло́васць (businesses that produce goods) · vi công nghiệp (businesses that produce goods) · sw kiwanda (businesses that produce goods) · lb Industrie (businesses of the same type) · mt industrija (businesses that produce goods) · ky индустрия (businesses that produce goods) · ru индустри́я (businesses that produce goods) · prs صَنْعَت (businesses that produce goods) · el βιομηχανία (businesses of the same type) · de Bestreben (tendency to work persistently) · ga tábhacht (tendency to work persistently) · sv industri (businesses that produce goods) · yi אינדוסטריע (businesses that produce goods) · tr endüstri (businesses of the same type) · pl przemysł (businesses that produce goods) · ru о́трасль (businesses of the same type) · bg трудолю́бие (tendency to work persistently) · fi teollisuus (businesses that produce goods) · uk працьови́тість (tendency to work persistently) · yue 勤勉 (tendency to work persistently) · bg инду́стрия (businesses that produce goods) · he תַּעֲשִׂיָּה (businesses that produce goods) · et majandusharu (businesses of the same type) · ar صِنَاعَة (businesses of the same type) · uk промисло́вість (businesses that produce goods) · he תַּעֲשִׂיָּה (businesses of the same type) · kw hwel ober (businesses that produce goods) · ro industrie (businesses of the same type) · bn ইন্ডস্ট্রী (businesses that produce goods) · hu igyekezet (tendency to work persistently) · el βιομηχανία (businesses that produce goods) · bn উদ্যোগ (businesses that produce goods) · ms industri (businesses of the same type) · yue 產業 /产业 (businesses of the same type) · grc φιλοπονία (tendency to work persistently) · as উদ্যোগ (businesses that produce goods) · tk industriýa (businesses that produce goods) · is iðnaður (businesses that produce goods) · fr industrie (tendency to work persistently) · ru промы́шленность (businesses of the same type) · bn শিল্প (businesses that produce goods) · ar صِنَاعَة (businesses that produce goods) · tg саноат (businesses that produce goods) · hu ipar (businesses that produce goods) · cs pracovitost (tendency to work persistently) · lt industrija (businesses of the same type) · sk industria (businesses that produce goods) · de Branche (businesses of the same type) · be інду́стрыя (businesses of the same type) · lt darbštumas (tendency to work persistently) · uz industriya (businesses that produce goods) · fa هوتخشی (businesses that produce goods) · te పరిశ్రమ (tendency to work persistently) · kw diwysyans (businesses of the same type) · yue 工業 /工业 (businesses of the same type) · uk промисло́вість (businesses of the same type) · ko 근면 (tendency to work persistently) · fi ahkeruus (tendency to work persistently) · ml വ്യവസായം (businesses that produce goods) · gl industria (businesses that produce goods) · kmr senet (businesses that produce goods) · ast industria (businesses that produce goods) · ru приле́жность (tendency to work persistently) · yue 產業 /产业 (businesses that produce goods)