Meaning of industry | Babel Free

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1. A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
2. The tendency to work persistently.
   uncountable
3. Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
   countable
4. the branch of chemistry that deals with the industrial use and application of organic substances. — chemurgic, chemurgical, adj.
5. Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
   uncountable
6. Rare. useful arts, as agriculture, commerce, and manufacturing.
7. The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
   countable, singular, uncountable
8. the science and technology of applying radiation and x rays to industrial use. See also radio.
9. Automated production of material goods.
   Europe, countable, uncountable
10. the application of automated machinery to tasks traditionally done by hand, as in the manufacturing industry.
11. A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
    countable, uncountable
12. a believer in the doctrines of John Alexander Dowie who founded Zion City, Illinois, in 1901, as an industrial community for his followers.
13. having, concerning etc industries or the making of goods. That area of the country is industrial rather than agricultural. industrieel صِناعي индустриален industrial průmyslový industriell industriel βιομηχανικόςindustrial tööstuslik, tööstus- صنعتی teollinen industriel תַּעֲשִׂייָתִי औद्योगिक industrijski ipari untuk industri iðnaðar- industriale 工業の 산업의 pramoninis industriāls; rūpniecības-; rūpniecisks perindustrian industrieelindustri-, industriell, fabrikk-przemysłowy صنعتی industrial ind...
    etc
14. a person who takes part in the running of a large industrial organization. a wealthy industrialist. industrialis صاحِب مَصْنَع، من أرباب الصِّناعَه индустриалист industrial průmyslník der Industrielle fabrikant; industrialist βιομήχανοςindustrial tööstur مدیر صنعت teollisuudenharjoittaja industriel/-elle תעשיין उद्योगपति industrijalac (nagy)iparos industriawan iðnrekandi industriale 実業家 산업가, 실업가 pramonininkas rūpnieks usahawan industrieelindustrileder, fabrikkeier przemysłowiec د صنعتی مدیر i...
15. (of a country) having a large number of industries. geïndustrialiseerd مُصَنَّع، كثير الصِّناعَه индистриализиран industrializado industrializovaný industrialisiert industrialiseret βιομηχανοποιημένος industrializado industrialiseeritud, industriaal- صنعتی teollistunut industrialisé מְתוֹעַש औद्योगीकरण करना industrijaliziran iparosított mengindustrikan iðnvæddur industrializzato 工業化した 산업화된 industrinis industrializēts mengindustrikan geïndustrialiseerd industrialisertuprzemysłowiony صنعتی indu...
16. industrialisasie تَصْنيع индустриализация industrialização industrializace die Industrialisierung industrialisering εκβιομηχάνισηindustrialización industrialiseerimine صنعتی سازی teollistuminen industrialisation פִּיתוּח תַּעֲשִׂייָה उद्योगीकरण industrijalizacija iparosítás industriawan iðnvæðing industrializzazione 工業化 산업화 industrializacija industrializācija pengindustrian industrialisatieindustrialisering uprzemysłowienie صنعتی جورونکی industrialização indus­trializare индустриализация indu...
17. busy and hard-working. industrious pupils. ywerige مُجْتَهِد، كَدود، جاد трудолюбив trabalhador pracovitý fleißig arbejdsom; flittig εργατικόςtrabajador, laborioso usin کوشا työteliäs travailleurחרוץ परिश्रमी marljiv szorgalmas rajin iðinn, vinnusamur industrioso, laborioso 勤勉な 근면한 darbštus strādīgs; uzcītīgs bekerja keras vlijtigarbeidsom, flittigpracowity هسه trabalhador sârguincios трудолюбивый pracovitý marljiv vredan flitig, arbetsam ขยัน çalışkan 勤奮的 працьовитий, старанний محنتی، جفاکش ...

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Examples

“Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.”

“The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?”

“The line ends at Narvik. Eight years ago the whole town was in ruins, but the industry of the Norwegian people has rebuilt it entirely.”

“England's win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield.”

“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.”

“Long before popular music evolved its many genres and subgenres, the industry was driven by a simple one-size-fits-all philosophy uncomplicated by impassioned debates over the origins of trip hop or the difference between deatchore and screamo.”

“Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.”

“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 of charcoal.”

“There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.”

“[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.”

“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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