moribund industry
- noun
- /ˈmɔrɪˌbʌnd ˈɪndəstri/
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industria moribunda
- South Africa has already received requests from several African countries for engineering teams to revitalize moribund industries like mining.
Examples
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The government is implementing new strategies to revive the moribund industry that has suffered from years of neglect.
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Cross-licensing between giants is the key to maintaining a complacent and moribund industry duopoly that effectively prevents any small or independent innovative third parties.
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Given that Apple actually does have the dough to license all the films and all the music in the world just by drawing from petty cash, it can actually be disruptive by being anti-disruptive in the cloud: by propping up the copyright holders and their moribund industries, Apple gains the inside track on providing a legal cloud service that no one else could match.
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Investors are wary of pouring money into a moribund industry with no signs of improvement in the near future.
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Many workers are losing their jobs as the moribund industry continues to decline without any hope for recovery.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'moribund' means 'in a state of decline or inactivity' and when applied to 'industry' straightforwardly yields 'an industry in decline.' This is a simple adjectival + noun composition following standard patterns (adjective qualifies noun), so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Moribund industry uses the word moribund, which means 'dying'. Imagine a factory with broken machines and very few workers; it looks 'dying', so the phrase means an industry that is close to disappearing.