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industry
English
Etymology
From Middle English industry, industrie, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”), from industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ?st-, ?str-, stem of ?r? (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ?str? (“industry”), Old English and?strian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nd?st?i/, /??nd?stri/
- Hyphenation: in?dus?try
Noun
industry (countable and uncountable, plural industries)
- (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The Ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The Ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51:
- Long before popular music evolved its many genres and subgenres, the industry was driven by a simple one-size-fits-all philosophy uncomplicated by impassioned debates over the origins of trip hop or the difference between deatchore and screamo.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51:
- (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
- (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
- (European software patent law) Automated production of material goods.
- (archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
Synonyms
- (tendency to work persistently): diligence; application
- (businesses of the same type): sector; field
- (businesses that produce goods): manufacturing
Derived terms
Related terms
- industrial
- industrious
Translations
References
Further reading
- industry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- industry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- industry at OneLook Dictionary Search
- "industry" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 165.
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workaholism
English
Noun
workaholism (uncountable)
- The urge of a person to work excessively.
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