industry
- noun
- /ˈɪndəstri/
- Jason, the credit card industry is quite opaque.
- manufacturing industry
- business and industry
- industry standard
I have very little idea of how your industry works, check.
- I have very little idea of how your industry works, check.
- Like the best guys in the industry are called producers.
- And yet an entire industry has been built on this.
- That's not sustainable in the restaurant industry, is what I was told.
- Do you feel like you are drawn to those industries specifically?
- And we got the industry right, but the company wrong.
- Can you say that for any other industry about anything?
- Jason, the credit card industry is quite opaque.
- He wrote that layoffs are contagious across industries and within industries.
- What part of the travel industry is the hardest part to hack?
- They've run it down because they don't know the industry does it.
Examples
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The retail, construction, and hotel and restaurant industries also contributed significantly to job growth.
Academic text (2011) -
The automotive industry plays a significant role in the economy by creating millions of jobs.
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And yet an entire industry has been built on this.
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And we got the industry right, but the company wrong.
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The team is supported by many people in the food industry who offer technical advice.
Academic text (2011) -
The industry is different nowadays.
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Our claim, therefore, is not that the pharmaceutical industry sets out to market bad drugs.
Academic text (2011) -
Leadership development is a $50 billion industry, but legal education has lagged behind.
Academic text (2017) -
Western oil companies dominated the global oil industry and collected most of its profits.
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The global warming industry is worth trillions.
Compounds
Businesses that make and show movies, television shows, and live shows
Part of the economy that provides services instead of making things, like hotels or hospitals
Companies that take people's money, lend it, and offer services to help with money
Businesses and factories that make materials used in medicines, plastics and cleaners
Companies that make and sell electronic devices like phones and computers
- Specialized
A group of companies that make electricity using energy from atoms
- Specialized
The sector that issues, trades, and regulates stocks and bonds
- Specialized
A careful study of an industry's trends and competitors to see if it is good for a business
- Specialized
The industry that turns crude oil into fuels like gasoline, diesel and jet fuel
A very large company, organization, or person that dominates an industry
- Specialized
A business that makes weapons and other equipment for the military
- Specialized
Businesses that make and sell power from hot water and rock underground
- Offensive
An artist secretly helped by a company to seem independent and more real
- Offensive
People who use racial issues to gain money, power or attention and increase social division
A group of businesses that offer ways to darken the skin, like spray tans and sunbeds
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Etymology
Industry comes from the Latin industria, which meant 'diligence' or 'hard work', and over time it came to name whole areas of business and production. So when we speak of the technology industry, we mean the group of people and companies who do that kind of work.