industry
making things MAKE, FACTORY
see also BUSINESS, ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, MANAGEMENT
- the work done in factories and large organizations: industry (noun C/U)
the growth of the car industry ◎ to develop the tourist industry ◎ The Government was planning to privatize the steel industry.
- connected with industry: industrial
industrial development
- industry that is involved in making things: manufacturing industry (noun C/U)
- industry that makes things like steel or large, heavy objects: heavy industry (noun C/U)
- industry that makes small goods: light industry (noun C/U)
- industry involved in helping people to do sth: service industry (noun C/U)
Service industries such as tourism and catering play an important part in the national economy.
- industry that can be done at home: cottage industry (noun C/U)
Pottery, weaving, and knitting are important cottage industries in the north of Scotland.
- if a country, area, town, etc has a lot of factories, etc, it is industrial
an industrial area
- to develop industries in a country: industrialize (sth); noun (U): industrialization
Britain became industrialized at the beginning of the nineteenth century. ◎ the industrialized countries of the West
- a person who owns or manages a large industrial company: industrialist
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