industry

IPA: ˈɪndʌstri

(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.
(countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
(uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
(in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
(European software patent law) Automated production of material goods.
(archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Examples of "industry" in Sentences

Given natural resources, the other great factor in industry is labour.
The Canaries are great, but their main industry is package holidays, their economy is based on it.
The title industry plays a particularly dynamic role in efforts to deter, detect, and report mortgage fraud.
The very word industry comes from the Middle English word industrie, or skill, and from the Latin industria, or diligence.
The very word "industry" comes from the Middle English word "industrie", or skill, and from the Latin "industria", or diligence.
The title industry has historically directed its marketing efforts towards real estate agents and loan originators rather than consumers.
In Pennsylvania, Attorney General Tom Corbett earlier this year successfully campaigned against a push by the title industry for increases in regulated rates.
They all sink into the lowest class of religions mendicants, or retainers; or live among their friends as drones upon the land; while the manufacturing, trading, and commercial industry that provided them with the comforts, conveniences, and elegancies of life while they were in a higher grade of service is in its turn thrown out of employment; and the whole frame of society becomes, for a time, deranged by the local diminution in the demand _for the services of men and the produce of their industry_.