industry

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English industry, industrie, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”), from industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ūst-, ūstr-, stem of ūrō (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ūstrī (“industry”), Old English andūstrian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈɪndəstɹi/ (Indic) IPA(key): /ɪnˈɖəsʈri/ (Tamil Nadu, Kerala) IPA(key): /ˈɪɳɖəst̺ri/ Hyphenation: in‧dus‧try === Noun === industry (countable and uncountable, plural industries) (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. Synonyms: industriousness, diligence, hardworkingness Coordinate terms: conscientiousness, grit (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade. (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services. (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises. (Europe software patent law) Automated production of material goods. (archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex. ==== Synonyms ==== (tendency to work persistently): diligence, industriousness; application (businesses of the same type): sector; field (businesses that produce goods): manufacturing ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== industrial industrious ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “industry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “industry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “industry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. Raymond Williams (1983), “Industry”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 165