toy industry
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- noun
- /tɔɪ ˈɪndəstri/
:
industria de juguetes
- Due to recent technology trends, the toy industry is seeing innovative products like interactive robots.
- billion-dollar toy industry
- toy industry analyst
- toy industry marketing
Examples
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The toy industry creates millions of colorful products that spark children's imaginations.
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Many companies in the toy industry have started using eco-friendly materials to attract eco-conscious consumers.
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I doubt even the toy industry has become quite that competitive.
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Local toy industry has started its output for Chinese new year.
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Oh, so I can't impress your parents with my encyclopaedic knowledge of the sex toy industry then?
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So there there is a bit of danger if you talk about because the toy industry is it is a magnet for people to do robotics.
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Traditionally, the garment, plastics, and toy industries have been the major users of outwork contracting to meet changing export demand.
Academic text (1997) -
The sex toy industry is a very uncanny environment, and Bad Dragon doesn't even try to compete with the harsh reality of dildo-producing sweatshops in China.
Synonyms
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An industry that makes and sells toys for children
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the sector of business involved in manufacturing and selling toys' is directly compositional from 'toy' (play item) + 'industry' (sector producing goods/services); the noun-noun compound simply names the industry focused on toys. This is a regular, cross-linguistically common modifier-head pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Toy industry links toy (a child's plaything) and industry (the business of making things). Imagine rows of toys on a factory belt, and that picture explains why the phrase means the part of business 'making and selling toys' today.