industry
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industry¹
- /ˈɪn.də.stɹi/ US, UK
Where it comes from
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”).
noun industries
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The tendency to work persistently.
Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
Similar: industriousness, diligence, hardworkingness, application
- Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade. The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
- Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services. But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
- The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises. There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
- Automated production of material goods. It is a classical and restricted view both of industry (it excludes service sectors, now 70% of the GDP of developed economies)[…]
- A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
Similar: businesses that produce goods
Industry²
proper noun
- A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: diligence, industriousness, manufacture, manufacturing, activity, cause, enterprise, production, professional, making, processing, part, segment, maker, property, tourism
noun
Similar: businesses that produce goods
Translations
Every language
noun tendency to work persistently
| 한국어 | 근면 geunmyeon |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 勤勉 kinben |
| 中文 | 勤勉 qínmiǎn |
| हिन्दी | उद्योग udyog |
| Português | industriosidade |
| Français | industrie |
| Deutsch | Bestreben |
| Ελληνικά | εργατικότητα ergatikótita, προκοπή prokopí |
| Русский | усе́рдие usérdije, трудолю́бие trudoljúbije, стара́тельность starátelʹnostʹ, прилежа́ние priležánije, приле́жность priléžnostʹ |
noun businesses of the same type
| Español | industria |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 산업 saneop |
| 日本語 | 産業 sangyō, 業界 gyōkai, 工業 kōgyō |
| हिन्दी | उद्योग udyog, इंडस्ट्री iṇḍasṭrī |
| Kiswahili | tasnia |
| Português | indústria |
| Deutsch | Branche, Wirtschaftszweig |
| Italiano | settore |
| Ελληνικά | βιομηχανία viomichanía |
| Română | industrie, branșă industrială |
| Русский | промы́шленность promýšlennostʹ, индустри́я industríja, о́трасль ótraslʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | công nghiệp |
| العربية | صِنَاعَة ṣināʕa |
| עברית | תַּעֲשִׂיָּה, תעשייה ta'asiá |
noun businesses that produce goods
| Español | industria |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 공업 gong'eop, 산업 saneop |
| 日本語 | 産業 sangyō, 業界 gyōkai, 工業 kōgyō |
| 中文 | 工業 /工业 gōngyè, 產業 /产业 chǎnyè |
| हिन्दी | उद्योग udyog |
| Kiswahili | kiwanda |
| Português | indústria |
| Français | industrie |
| Deutsch | Industrie |
| Italiano | industria |
| Ελληνικά | βιομηχανία viomichanía |
| Română | industrie |
| Русский | промы́шленность promýšlennostʹ, инду́стрия indústrija, индустри́я industríja, про́мысел prómysel, произво́дство proizvódstvo |
| Tiếng Việt | công nghiệp |
| العربية | صِنَاعَة ṣināʕa |
| עברית | תַּעֲשִׂיָּה, תעשייה ta'asiá |
Talk about this word "industry." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/industry. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. industry. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/industry "industry." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/industry.Cite this
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title = {industry},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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