industry vs operation

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. 

operation

noun
  • A business or organization. 

  • The method or practice by which actions are done. 

  • The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral. 

  • A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands); 

  • A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm) 

  • A planned undertaking. 

  • a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value. 

  • The method by which a device performs its function. 

  • A surgical procedure. 

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