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FromMiddle Englishindustry,industrie, fromOld Frenchindustrie, fromLatinindustria(“diligence, activity, industry”), fromindustrius(“diligent, active, zealous”), fromOld Latinindostruus(“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps fromindu(“in”) +ūst-, ūstr-, stem ofūrō(“burn, burn up, consume”,verb), related toOld High Germanūstrī(“industry”),Old Englishandūstrian(“to hate, detest”, literally“to be consumed with zeal”).

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industry (countable anduncountable,pluralindustries)

  1. (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.
    Synonyms:industriousness,diligence,hardworkingness
    Coordinate terms:conscientiousness,grit
    Over the years, theirindustry and business sense made them wealthy.
    • 1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, inThe Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page224:
      The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constantindustry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
    • 1953 June, C. E. N. Watts, “Railway Through Lapland”, inRailway Magazine, page384:
      The line ends at Narvik. Eight years ago the whole town was in ruins, but theindustry of the Norwegian people has rebuilt it entirely.
    • 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, inBBC Sport:
      England's win was built onindustry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield.
  2. (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole;trade.
    The software and tourismindustries continue to grow, while the steelindustry remains troubled.
    The steelindustry has long usedblast furnaces to smelt iron.
    • 2012, Christoper Zara,Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2,51:
      Long before popular music evolved its many genres and subgenres, theindustry was driven by a simple one-size-fits-all philosophy uncomplicated by impassioned debates over the origins of trip hop or the difference between deatchore and screamo.
    • 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8838, page71:
      Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is anindustry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
  3. (uncountable, economics) Businesses that producegoods asopposed toservices.
    • 2006,Edwin Black, chapter 2, inInternal Combustion:
      But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades andindustries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
  4. (in thesingular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
    There used to be a lot ofindustry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
    • 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
      [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help toindustry 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 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
  5. (Europe software patentlaw) Automated production of material goods.
    • 2007, Dominique Guellec with Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie,The economics of the European patent system, page122:
      It is a classical and restricted view both ofindustry (it excludes service sectors, now 70% of the GDP of developed economies)[…]
  6. (archaeology) Atypologicalclassification ofstonetools, associated with atechnocomplex.

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Translations

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tendency to work persistently
businesses of the same type
businesses that produce goods

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