Industry

Noun

 * 1)  The tendency to work persistently.
 * Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
 * 1)  Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole.
 * The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
 * The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
 * 1)  Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
 * There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
 * 1)  The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises
 * 2)  Automated production of material goods.

Synonyms

 * diligence; application
 * sector; field
 * manufacturing

Derived terms

 * automotive industry
 * captain of industry
 * cottage industry
 * film industry
 * finance industry


 * food services industry
 * health care industry
 * heavy industry
 * light industry
 * primary industry


 * secondary industry
 * smokestack industry
 * software industry
 * tertiary industry
 * video game industry

Related terms

 * industrial
 * industrious

Adjectives for Industry
domestic; ignorant; large; indefatigable; honest; urban; diversified; pious; prodigious; persistent; purposeless; scheduled; languid; necessitous; productive; peaceable; incomparable; much-vexed; myriad-shaped; indigenous; extraordinary; untiring; vast; growing; refining; charming; laudable; seasonal; unwearied; promising; middling; patient; technical; all-absorbing; mingled; damnable; unflagging; depression-born; unfaltering; modest; native; skilful; adoring; subsidized; persistent; unaided; predominating; dark-armed.

Verbs for Industry
blossom into—; bulwark—; chastise—; cow —; cripple—;  dislocate—;  dominate—; evolve into—; father—; fortify—; foster—; gag—; merge—s; modernize—; organize—; paralyze—; prod—; reconstruct—; regulate —; rejuvenate—; resurrect—; retard—; revitalize—; revive—; sovietize—; speed up —; stimulate—; subsidize—; threaten—; tie up—; —booms; —buzzes; —collapses; —flourishes; —languishes; —perks up; — rallies; —squirms.

Thesaurus
Aktiengesellschaft, activity, aktiebolag, application, ardor, assiduity, assiduousness, balance of trade, big business, body corporate, bulldog tenacity, business, business dealings, business establishment, bustle, cartel, chamber of commerce, combine, commerce, commercial affairs, commercial enterprise, commercial relations, compagnie, company, concentration, concern, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidating company, consortium, constancy, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, dealing, dealings, determination, diligence, dirty work, diversified corporation, dogged perseverance, doggedness, donkeywork, drudgery, dynamism, earnestness, effort, employment, endurance, energeticalness, energy, engrossment, enterprise, exertion, fag, fair trade, fatigue, fervor, fidelity, firm, free trade, grind, handiwork, handwork, holding company, house, hustle, indefatigability, industriousness, insistence, insistency, intercourse, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, labor, laboriousness, lick, lick of work, loyalty, manual labor, manufacture, market, marketing, mercantile business, merchantry, moil, multilateral trade, obstinacy, operating company, pains, painstaking, painstakingness, partnership, patience, patience of Job, permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, plugging, plunderbund, pool, preoccupation, production, public utility, rat race, reciprocal trade, relentlessness, resolution, restraint of trade, scut work, sedulity, sedulousness, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slavery, slogging, small business, spadework, stability, stamina, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, stock company, strenuousness, stroke, stroke of work, stubbornness, sweat, syndicate, task, tenaciousness, tenacity, the business world, the marketplace, thoroughgoingness, thoroughness, tirelessness, tiresome work, toil, trade, trade association, traffic, travail, treadmill, truck, trust, unilateral trade, unremittingness, unsparingness, unswerving attention, utility, vehemence, vigor, work, zealousness

Etymology
From industrie: <  industria: < industrius:, from Old Latin indostruus:; origin unknown. Perhaps from indu: + undefined:, stem of uro:, related to ustri:,  andustrian:.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ahkeruus
 * German: Bestreben
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: ketekunan


 * Korean: 근면, 성실
 * Latvian: strādīgums
 * Lithuanian: darbštumas
 * Telugu: పరిశ్రమ (pariSrama)
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: (ṣināʻa)
 * Chinese: 工業, 工业 (gōngyè), 產業, 产业 (chǎnyè)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: toimiala,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תעשייה
 * Ido:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:


 * Latvian: rūpniecība, industrija
 * Lithuanian: pramonė, industrija
 * Norwegian: forretningsområde
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, индустрия
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: industri, bransch
 * Telugu: పరిశ్రమ (pariSrama)
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: (ṣināʻa)
 * Chinese: 工業, 工业 (gōngyè), 產業, 产业 (chǎnyè)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, teollisuudenala
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תעשייה
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese: ,


 * Korean:
 * Latvian: rūpniecība
 * Lithuanian: pramonė
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, индустрия
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పరిశ్రమ (pariSrama)
 * Turkish: