industry

About 94.80 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The tendency to work persistently.

   Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.

2. noun Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.

   The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.

3. noun Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
4. noun The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.

   There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.

5. noun Automated production of material goods.
6. noun A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.

Similar words

diligence industriousness manufacture manufacturing activity cause enterprise production professional making

Often followed by

and in is of was to has as or

Word family

industries