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sunset industries

sunset industries is the plural of sunset industry.

Meaning of sunset industry

Noun

sunset industry (plural sunset industries)

  1. A type of business that is obsolescent.
    • Yet, the negative image one hears at present is not of a "sweatshop industry" but of a "sunset industry."1986, Morton Schoolman, Alvin Magid, Reindustrializing New York State: Strategies, Implications, Challenges, →ISBN, page 53

Questions about sunset industries

What is sunset industries the plural of?
Sunset industries is the plural of sunset industry.

Words near sunset industries in the dictionary

  1. Sunset Crater
  2. sunset crop
  3. sunset crops
  4. sunset flip
  5. sunset flips
  6. sunset industries
  7. sunset industry
  8. sunset law
  9. sunset laws
  10. sunset moth
  11. sunset orange

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