industry
Syllables: in·dus·try/ˈɪn.də.stɹi/
industry noun: the tendency to work persistently.
Noun
industry (countable and uncountable, plural industries)
- The tendency to work persistently.
- Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
- The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224
- Synonyms:
- industriousness, diligence, hardworkingness, application
- Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
- The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
- The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
- 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
- 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.
- [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July...2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
- 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
- A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
Proper noun capitalized: Industry
Industry
industry meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
industry in Hindi
- tendency to work persistently
- उद्योग udyog
- businesses of the same type
- उद्योग udyog, इंडस्ट्री iṇḍasṭrī
- businesses that produce goods
- उद्योग udyog
industry in Tamil
- businesses that produce goods
- தொழிற்றுறை toḻiṟṟuṟai
industry in Marathi
- businesses that produce goods
- उद्योग udyog
industry in Urdu
- businesses that produce goods
- صَنْعَت san'at
More languagesFewer languages
- industry in Bengali
- ইন্ডস্ট্রী inḍosṭri, শিল্প śilpo, উদ্যোগ uddōg
- industry in Telugu
- పరిశ్రమ pariśrama
- industry in Malayalam
- വ്യവസായം vyavasāyaṁ
- industry in Kannada
- ಕೈಗಾರಿಕೆಗಳು kaigārikegaḷu
- industry in Punjabi
- ਉਦਯੋਗ, ਸਨਅਤ
- industry in Gujarati
- ઉદ્યોગ udyog
- industry in Odia
- ଶିଳ୍ପ śiḷpa, ଉଦ୍ୟୋଗ udyoga
- industry in Sinhala
- උද්යෝගය udyōgaya
- industry in Assamese
- উদ্যোগ uiddüg
- industry in Nepali
- उद्योग, उद्योगको
- industry in Pashto
- صنعت san'at
- industry in Tagalog
- kalalang
- industry in Arabic
- صِنَاعَة ṣināʕa
- industry in Malay
- industri
- industry in Indonesian
- ketekunan, industri
- industry in Persian
- هوتخشی hutoxši
- industry in Thai
- อุตสาหกรรม ùt-sǎa-hà-gam
- industry in Vietnamese
- công nghiệp
- industry in Myanmar
- လုံ့လ lum.la., ကုန်ထုတ်လုပ်ငန်း kunhtutlupngan:, စက်မှုလက်မှု cakhmu.lakhmu.
Examples of industry in a sentence
- Eight years ago the whole town was in ruins, but the industry of the Norwegian people has rebuilt it entirely.1953 June, C. E. N. Watts, “Railway Through Lapland”, in Railway Magazine, page 384:
- England's win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield.2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
- This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
- [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity.2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Synonyms of industry
- industriousness
- diligence
- hardworkingness
- application
- sector
- field
- businesses that produce goods
Forms of industry
| plural | industries |
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Origin of industry
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”) + ūst-, ūstr-, stem of ūrō (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ūstrī (“industry”), Old English andūstrian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).
Words formed from industry
- aeroindustry
- agroindustry
- antiindustry
- automotive industry
- bioindustry
- captain of industry
- cottage industry
- cyberindustry
- defensive industry
- evergreen industry
- film industry
- finance industry
- food services industry
- health care industry
- heavy industry
- hive of industry
- Industry 4.0
- industry discount
- industry plant
- industrywide
- industrywise
- infant industry
- interindustry
- intraindustry
- knight of industry
- light industry
- megaindustry
- microindustry
- multiindustry
- nanoindustry
- nonindustry
- preindustry
- primary industry
- proindustry
- proto-industry
- quaternary industry
- racial grievance industry
- secondary industry
- service industry
- sex industry
- smokestack industry
- software industry
- subindustry
- sunrise industry
- sunset industry
- superindustry
- tertiary industry
- twilight industry
Phrases with industry
Questions about industry
- What does industry mean?
- Industry means the tendency to work persistently.
- What is industry in Hindi?
- Industry in Hindi is उद्योग (udyog), इंडस्ट्री (iṇḍasṭrī). See Industry meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use industry in a sentence?
- Eight years ago the whole town was in ruins, but the industry of the Norwegian people has rebuilt it entirely.
- What part of speech is industry?
- Industry can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce industry?
- Industry is pronounced /ˈɪn.də.stɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of industry?
- The plural of industry is industries.
Words near industry in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: industry (page history and authors); Industry (page history and authors); industry (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); industry (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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