Industry
['ɪndəstrɪ] or ['ɪndəstri]
Definition
(noun.) the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; 'American industry is making increased use of computers to control production'.
(noun.) the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; 'each industry has its own trade publications'.
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Definition
(n.) Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.
(n.) Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.
(n.) Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Assiduity, assiduousness, sedulousness, perseverance, activity, DILIGENCE, habitual devotion to labor.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Activity, toil, assiduity, diligence, perseverance
ANT:Inactivity, ease, indiligence, indolence
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Definition
n. quality of being diligent: assiduity: steady application to labour: habitual diligence: manufacture: trade.—adj. Indus′trial relating to or consisting in industry.—n. Indus′trialism devotion to labour or industrial pursuits: that system or condition of society in which industrial labour is the chief and most characteristic feature opposed to feudalism and the military spirit.—adv. Indus′trially.—adj. Indus′trious diligent or active in one's labour: laborious: diligent in a particular pursuit.—adv. Indus′triously.—Industrial exhibition museum an exhibition museum of industrial products or manufactures; Industrial school a school in which agricultural or some other industrial art is taught: a school where neglected children are taught mechanical arts.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are industrious, denotes that you will be unusually active in planning and working out ideas to further your interests, and that you will be successful in your undertakings. For a lover to dream of being industriously at work, shows he will succeed in business, and that his companion will advance his position. To see others busy, is favorable to the dreamer.
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Examples
- One sees very little about it in the newspapers and popular magazines, in spite of the fact that it is the keystone, so to speak, of the motion-picture industry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- You that should be models of industry are just as gossip-loving as the idle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Gerald himself, who was responsible for all this industry, was he a good director? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Application and industry have been familiar to the one; idleness and dissipation to the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Scarce any nation has dealt equally and impartially with every sort of industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Pasteur's attention was next directed to the wine industry, which then had an annual value to France of 500,000,000 francs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She was ever remarkable for her perseverance, for her industry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The third, those in which the efficacy of industry is either limited or uncertain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When the trade had extended into all the surrounding counties, however, the new business needed another prime essential of industry--transportation facilities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The deepest revolt implied in the term syndicalism is against the impersonal, driven quality of modern industry--against the destruction of that pride which alone distinguishes work from slavery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It appeared to me that his industry was all misdirected. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She would marry him, he would go into Parliament in the Conservative interest, he would clear up the great muddle of labour and industry. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Whatever knowledge I may have of the electric light and power industry I feel I owe it to the tuition of Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- By removing his stock, he would put an end to all the industry which it had maintained in the country which he left. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Chemistry plays a part in every phase of life; in the arts, the industries, the household, and in the body itself, where digestion, excretion, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Great numbers of his most sober and valuable subjects were driven abroad by his religious persecutions, taking arts and industries with them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But it is not by these industries that he is now remembered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The opposition of rival manufacturers could not in the nature of things long retard what was to become one of the nation’s main industries. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Under these new conditions, the workers in many industries found themselves intolerably squeezed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It may be true that there are other industries of recent growth that are more highly capitalized than the motion-picture business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Pasteur's interest in these problems of fermentation wa s stimulated by one of the industries of Lille. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- For the most part, this also applies to the garment trade and its closely allied clothing industries. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The oleomargarine industry is closely related to the beef packing industries of the United States, and its growth has been enormous. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- One lifetime is too short, and I am busy every day improving essential parts of my established industries. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The newspapers learned of these, and began to suggest their use in a number of industries. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The total is a surprising catalogue of industries for the young Clifton Director. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The accompanying diagram, Fig. 121, from Mulhall’s Industries and Wealth of Nations, shows in 1860 30 per cent. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Diving, aside from the pleasure afforded to good swimmers, is important in many different industries, particularly in fishing for pearls, corals, sponges, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Certainly every time he came in contact with the industries--silk, wine, beer, wool--his scientific insight, Ant?us-like, seemed to revive. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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