industries

Noun

industry (countable and uncountable, plural industries)

1. (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.
   • Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.

   Synonyms:

   industriousness, diligence, hardworkingness, application

2. (countable) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
   • The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.

   Synonyms:

   sector, field

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. (singular) 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. (Europe) 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. A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.

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