adult movie industry
- noun
- /əˈdʌlt ˈmuːvi ˈɪndəstri/
- NSFW
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industria del cine para adultos
- The documentary provided insights into the inner workings of the adult movie industry.
Examples
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The adult movie industry has been a topic of discussion in debates about censorship and free speech.
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Many actors have made successful transitions from mainstream films to the adult movie industry.
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Luckily, there was a Fox Network special on about the California adult movie industry.
Fiction book (1999)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'adult' (sexually explicit), 'movie' (film) and 'industry' (sector producing/distributing) combine to denote the sector producing sexually explicit films. This is a literal, productive noun-noun construction found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the overall meaning.
Etymology
Adult movie industry joins the parts adult, meaning 'for grown-up viewers', and movie industry, meaning 'the business that makes films', so it refers to the business that makes and sells films only for adults, often with sexual content.
