company vs industry

company

noun
  • Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture. 

  • A small group of birds or animals. 

  • A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose. 

  • Companionship. 

  • A unit of firefighters and their equipment. 

  • An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation. 

  • The entire crew of a ship. 

  • Social visitors or companions. 

  • An intelligence service. 

  • A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion. 

industry

noun
  • Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services. 

  • The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises. 

  • The tendency to work persistently. Diligence. 

  • Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade. 

  • Automated production of material goods. 

  • A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex. 

How often have the words company and industry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )