English Explanatory Dictionary

industry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The tendency to work persistently.
  2. Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
  3. Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
  4. The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
  5. Automated production of material goods.
  6. A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
name
  1. A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Pronunciation

/ˈɪn.də.stɹi/ en-us-industry.ogg En-uk-industry.ogg /ɪnˈɖəs.ʈri/ /ˈɪn.ɖə.sʈri/

Word forms

industry industries

Etymology

From Middle English industry, industrie, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”), from industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ūst-, ūstr-, stem of ūrō (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ūstrī (“industry”), Old English andūstrian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).

Synonyms

businesses that produce goods industriousness diligence hardworkingness application sector field

Related words

industrial industrious

Derived words

agroindustry antiindustry automotive industry bioindustry captain of industry cottage industry cyberindustry defensive industry evergreen industry film industry finance industry food services industry health care industry heavy industry hive of industry Industry 4.0 industry discount industry plant industrywide industrywise infant industry interindustry intraindustry knight of industry light industry megaindustry microindustry multiindustry nanoindustry nonindustry preindustry primary industry proindustry proto-industry quaternary industry racial grievance industry secondary industry service industry sex industry smokestack industry software industry subindustry sunrise industry sunset industry superindustry tertiary industry twilight industry
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