garment industry
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈɡɑːrmənt ˈɪndəstri/
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industria de la confección
- The garment industry plays a crucial role in the economy, creating jobs for millions worldwide.
- textile and garment industry
- Caribbean garment industry
OK, but private label is a non shady, completely legitimate, very commonplace kind of business deal within the garment industry.
- OK, but private label is a non shady, completely legitimate, very commonplace kind of business deal within the garment industry.
Examples
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Well, one thing that has happened is the garment industry, which employs millions of young girls.
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Nearly 450,000 women workers are presently employed in the garment industry, which accounts for 52 percent of Sri Lanka's exports.
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Both took refuge in the New York garment industry.
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He and my dad were partners in the garment industry.
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NYC had the garment industry but many other things too.
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In Bangladesh, it is training local women in the garment industry to move up from fabric sorters to seamstresses and cutters.
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Many of the workers who remain in the U.S. garment industry, toiling as sweatshop workers or as underpaid home workers, suffer declining wages that today are often below the legal minimum.
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Wages for Haitian workers in the garment industry remain the lowest in the region, even after they were raised to about $3.75 a day in August 2009 after days of protests and clashes with police.
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Many new technologies are being introduced to improve sustainability in the garment industry.
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The garment industry has seen significant changes in fashion trends with the rise of eco-friendly clothing.
Synonyms
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3.2
Businesses that design, make, and sell clothing and accessories
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3.3
The industry that designs, makes, and sells clothes and accessories
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3.2
A business that designs, makes and sells clothes
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A business that makes and sells fashionable clothes
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'garment industry' is a straightforward noun–noun composition meaning the industry that produces garments (clothing); this meaning is directly derivable from knowing 'garment' and 'industry'. The composition follows common, cross-linguistic patterns for naming sectors (e.g. 'car industry', 'textile industry'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Garment industry combines garment, meaning a piece of clothing, and industry, meaning many factories or businesses. Picture long rows of sewing machines and people making shirts and dresses, and you can see why the phrase means 'the business' of making and selling clothes.