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Plural of industry

regular plural

The plural of industry is industries.

Forms of industry

Singularindustry /ˈɪn.də.stɹi/
Pluralindustries /ˈɪndəstɹiz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Industries in a sentence

  • The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
  • But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
  • Nanoelectronics is one of the area's few growth industries .From the entry growth
  • Industries that require a lot of fossil fuels are unlikely to be popular in the current political climate.From the entry climate
  • The safety systems engineer examined records of never events across several industries, including health care, air traffic control, and nuclear power.From the entry never event

Meaning of industry

  1. noun The tendency to work persistently.
  2. noun Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
  3. noun Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

Full definition of industry

Questions about the plural of industry

What is the plural of industry?
The plural of industry is industries.
Is industry countable?
Industry is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: industry (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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