industry

industry definitions

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

  • The tendency to work persistently. Diligence. 

  • Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services. 

  • 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.