industry
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Noun (3)industries
- the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise“each industry has its own trade publications”Type of commercial enterpriseKinds market, automobile industry, oil industry, growth industry, hydropower industry, geothermal industry, construction industry, chemical industry, entertainment industry, renewable energy industry +21 more
- the organized action of making of goods and services for sale“American industry is making increased use of computers to control production”Synonyms: manufactureType of commercial enterprise, business enterpriseKinds industrialization, production, cottage industry
- persevering determination to perform a task“his diligence won him quick promotions”“frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues”Synonyms: diligenceindustriousnessType of determination, purposeKinds assiduity, sedulity, studiousness
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Translations
Noun businesses that produce goods
- Spanish
- industria
- French
- industrie
- German
- Industrie
- Italian
- industria
- Portuguese
- indústria
- Turkish
- endüstri
- Russian
- промы́шленность promýšlennostʹ
- Arabic
- صِنَاعَة ṣināʕa
- Chinese
- 工业 gōngyè
- Japanese
- 産業 sangyō
25 more languages
- Dutch
- nijverheid
- Polish
- przemysł
- Swedish
- industri
- Greek
- βιομηχανία viomichanía
- Korean
- 공업 gong'eop
- Indonesian
- industri
- Vietnamese
- công nghiệp
- Hungarian
- ipar
- Portuguese (PT)
- indústria
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 工業 gōngyè
- Catalan
- indústria
- Czech
- průmysl
- Danish
- industri
- Esperanto
- industrio
- Estonian
- tööstus
- Finnish
- teollisuus
- Georgian
- ინდუსტრია indusṭria
- Hebrew
- תעשייה ta'asiá
- Icelandic
- iðnaður
- Latvian
- rūpniecība
- Norwegian
- industri
- Romanian
- industrie
- Serbo-Croatian
- industrija
- Swahili
- kiwanda
- Walloon
- industreye
Noun businesses of the same type
- Spanish
- industria
- German
- Branche
- Portuguese
- indústria
- Turkish
- endüstri
- Russian
- о́трасль ótraslʹ
- Chinese
- 行业 hángyè
- Japanese
- 業界 gyōkai
- Polish
- branża
- Swedish
- bransch
- Greek
- βιομηχανία viomichanía
15 more languages
- Korean
- 산업 saneop
- Vietnamese
- công nghiệp
- Hungarian
- iparág
- Portuguese (PT)
- indústria
- Czech
- branže
- Danish
- industri
- Finnish
- toimiala
- Georgian
- ინდუსტრია industria
- Hebrew
- תעשייה ta'asiá
- Icelandic
- iðnaður
- Latvian
- rūpniecība
- Romanian
- industrie
- Scottish Gaelic
- gnìomhachas
- Swahili
- tasnia
- Welsh
- diwydiant
Noun tendency to work persistently
- French
- assiduité
- German
- Fleiß
- Portuguese
- diligência
- Russian
- прилежа́ние priležánije
- Japanese
- 勤勉 kinben
- Dutch
- werklust
- Greek
- εργατικότητα ergatikótita
- Korean
- 근면 geunmyeon
- Hungarian
- szorgalom
- Portuguese (PT)
- industriosidade
5 more languages
- Czech
- píle
- Esperanto
- diligenteco
- Finnish
- ahkeruus
- Latvian
- strādīgums
- Lithuanian
- darbštumas
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. industria, cf. industrius diligent; of uncertain origin: cf. F. industrie.
1. Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; — opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.
We are more industrious than our forefathers, because in the present times the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater in proportion to those which are likely to be employed in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago.— Adam Smith
2. Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.
3. Polit. Econ. Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.
Synonyms: Diligence; assiduity; perseverance; activity; laboriousness; attention. See Diligence.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54