industry

industry

industry (countable and uncountable; plural industries)

1. (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.

   Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.

   • 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, BBC Sport:

     Englands win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester Citys Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield.

2. (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole.

   The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.

   The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.

3. (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

   There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.

4. (in singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises
5. (European software patents) Automated production of material goods^[1].
   • 2007, Dominique Guellec; Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, The economics of the European patent system, page 122:

     It is a classical and restricted view both of industry (it excludes service sectors, now 70% of the GDP of developed economies)

	industria
	A group of establishments engaged in the same or similar kinds of economic activities. They produce a range of commodities that are sold with the expectation of recovering the total cost of production.

applicazione

diligenza

attività

fabbrica

laboriosità

operosità

Altri significati:

(European software patents) Automated production of material goods.

businesses that produce goods

(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.

tendency to work persistently

(countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole.

(uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

businesses of the same type

(manufacturing) industry

(encouragement of) industry

(in singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises

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