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The tendency to work persistently.uncountable
- Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
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Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.countable
- 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.
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Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.uncountable
- 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
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The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.countablesingularuncountable
- There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
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Automated production of material goods.Europecountableuncountable
- It is a classical and restricted view both of industry (it excludes service sectors, now 70% of the GDP of developed economies)[…]
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A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.countableuncountable
syn. businesses that produce goods