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smokestack industry

smokestack industry noun: any industry or large manufacturing facility that uses smokestacks to dispose of unwanted materials into the atmosphere.

Noun

smokestack industry (plural smokestack industries)

  1. Any industry or large manufacturing facility that uses smokestacks to dispose of unwanted materials into the atmosphere.
    • Again, the government policy to be pursued when a smokestack industry such as steel is coping with the demand-side effects of a worldwide recession is quite different from what should be done when another smokestack industry such as autos is trying to regain is competitive footing[…]1986, Paul R. Krugman, Strategic Trade Policy and the New International Economics, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 252
    • Around the same time, nationally syndicated journalist Robert Walters was reporting that ‘many members of Congress refuse to even acknowledge the fact that uncounted thousands of jobs in the auto, steel and other traditional “smokestack” industries have been irretrievably lost while employment...2019, Richard Carr, quoting Robert Walters, March of the Moderates […] , Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

Forms of smokestack industry

pluralsmokestack industries

Questions about smokestack industry

What does smokestack industry mean?
Smokestack industry means any industry or large manufacturing facility that uses smokestacks to dispose of unwanted materials into the atmosphere.
What part of speech is smokestack industry?
Smokestack industry is a noun.
What is the plural of smokestack industry?
The plural of smokestack industry is smokestack industries.

Words near smokestack industry in the dictionary

  1. smokeshows
  2. smokesploitation
  3. smokest
  4. smokestack
  5. smokestack industries
  6. smokestack industry
  7. smokestacks
  8. smoketh
  9. smoketight
  10. smoketree
  11. smoketrees

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