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heavy industry

heavy industry noun: industrial processes that are very complex or involve large and heavy equipment, facilities, or end products.

Noun

heavy industry (uncountable)

  1. Industrial processes that are very complex or involve large and heavy equipment, facilities, or end products.
    • From then on, the dogma of the primacy of heavy industry became a permanent part of the state ideology.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...

heavy industry meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Malay and Indonesian

heavy industry in Tamil

கனரகத் தொழிற்சாலை, கனரகத் தொழில்

heavy industry in Arabic

heavy industry
صناعات ثقيلة

heavy industry in Malay

heavy industry
perindustrian berat

heavy industry in Indonesian

heavy industry
industri berat
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heavy industry in Persian
صنایع سنگین
heavy industry in Vietnamese
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Antonyms of heavy industry

Questions about heavy industry

What does heavy industry mean?
Heavy industry means industrial processes that are very complex or involve large and heavy equipment, facilities, or end products.
What is heavy industry in Tamil?
Heavy industry in Tamil is கனரகத் தொழிற்சாலை, கனரகத் தொழில். See Heavy industry meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is heavy industry?
Heavy industry is a noun.

Words near heavy industry in the dictionary

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  4. heavy icebreaker
  5. heavy icebreakers
  6. heavy industry
  7. heavy ion
  8. heavy ions
  9. heavy legs
  10. heavy lift
  11. heavy lifting

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