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industry-wide

industry-wide

4 3.6
Affecting all companies in the same industry
  • adjective
  • /ˈɪndəstri waɪd/
translation icon : a nivel de la industria
  • The company has launched an initiative to promote industry-wide sustainability practices.
  • industry-wide cost
  • industry-wide standard
  • industry-wide group

Isn't there an industry wide standard for sizing?

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Examples

  • The campaign seeks to build a health care industry-wide effort to prevent back and other musculoskeletal injuries.

    Academic text (2006)
  • To improve safety, the government proposed industry-wide regulations for all factories.

  • The standards can be internal, industry-wide, or even international.

    Academic text (1993)
  • There are also numerous industry-wide labor management groups.

    Academic text (1996)
  • It seems like the company is actually trying to affect industry wide change that would benefit all developers, not just them.

  • The association is striving for 100% industry-wide participation, regardless of membership status.

    Blog text (33)
  • The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations are industry-wide and relate to noise and safety issues.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The recent conference addressed industry-wide issues that affect both small and large businesses.

Synonyms

across the board
vsindustry-wide
110 3.7

In a way that affects everyone in a group with no one left out

targets only companies and organizations in a specific sector
across-the-board
vsindustry-wide
15 4.4

Affecting everyone or everything in a group in the same way

affects only companies and organizations within a particular sector

How Widespread

global
2.7
nationwide
265 3.0
industry-wide
4 3.6
company-wide
4 3.4
local
1.0

Surface Forms

industry-wide positive

Morphology

industry-wide = industry + wide (transparent) = industry + wide

The meaning 'throughout a particular industry' follows directly from the clear combination of 'industry' + 'wide' and is readily inferable by learners.

Etymology

Industry-wide is formed from industry (once meaning 'hard work' and now often used for 'business') and wide ('covering a large area'). So industry-wide means something that affects or happens across the whole industry.