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Definition industry

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”) + ?st-, ?str-, stem of ?r? (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ?str? (“industry”), Old English and?strian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).

Noun

industry (countable and uncountable, plural industries)

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

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