industry

Definition of industry in English English dictionary: Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole
The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.; The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises; Automated production of material goodsEuropean Parliament|European Parliament]] (2003-09-24). "."; The tendency to work persistently
Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.; 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.; Classification of a particular kind of establishment based on type of economic activity, e g , manufacturing, trade, services, government, etc The Standard Industrial Classification Manual (SIC), 1987, provides a system for numerical classification of these activities; The manufacturing (making) and selling of a particular type of good or service - for example the auto industry; the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "each industry has its own trade publications"; 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; {i} manufacturing, trade; group of companies which produce a particular product; diligence, perseverance, tendency to work hard; a large system in which products, or goods, are manufactured or made in a systematic and mechanical method; Horizontal array of firms at a particular stage or level in a marketing channel An industry is composed of firms on only one side of a market The firms in the same industry are rivals and competitive relationships exist among them; Any branch of production-especially manufacturing; persevering determination to perform a task; "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues"; 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; A generic term for a distinct group of economic activities Industries are described and classified by their primary activity or product NHetwork: Industry; – the nature or character of the business or enterprise or the place wherein a person works; Market Guide has grouped its company universe into more than 100 distinctive industries These industries have been developed to contain those companies that operate along similar lines of business The Market Guide Industry is displayed as a six character mnemonic; Choose One banking/finance/real estatecomputer-related IS, MIS, DPcomputer-related Internetcomputer-related hardwarecomputer-related softwareeducation, researchengineering/constructionmanufacturing/distributionbusiness supplies or servicesmedical/health servicesentertainment/media/publishinghospitality- travel/accommodationsconsumer retail/wholesalenonprofit/membership organizationsgovernmentlegal services; The category describing a company's primary business activity This category is usually determined by the largest portion of revenue; University classification capturing the type of organization to which the sponsor belongs For example, Federal Government, Provincial Government, Corporation, etc; the collection of firms making the same product is called an industry; the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"; Industry is the work and processes involved in collecting raw materials, and making them into products in factories. British industry suffers through insufficient investment in research; the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production" the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "each industry has its own trade publications; One of any number of categories used to describe a company's primary business activity, usually determined by largest source of a company's revenues Can be broad (such as Consumer Cyclical companies), or specific (quick-service hamburger restaurants), or some category in between; Industry is the fact of working very hard. No one doubted his ability, his industry or his integrity. see also captain of industry, cottage industry, service industry. Group of productive organizations that produce or supply goods, services, or sources of income. In economics, industries are customarily classified as primary, secondary, and tertiary; secondary industries are further classified as heavy and light. Primary industry includes agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, quarrying, and extracting minerals. Secondary or manufacturing industry processes the raw materials supplied by primary industries into consumer goods, or further processes goods from other secondary industries, or builds capital goods used to manufacture consumer and nonconsumer goods; secondary industry also includes energy-producing industries and the construction industry. Tertiary or service industry includes banking, finance, insurance, investment, and real estate services; wholesale, retail, and resale trade; transportation, information, and communications services; professional, consulting, legal, and personal services; tourism, hotels, restaurants, and entertainment; repair and maintenance services; education and teaching; and health, social welfare, administrative, police, security, and defense services. Acheulean industry fishing industry Mousterian industry Oldowan industry pharmaceutical industry service industry Solutrean industry stone tool industry Imperial Chemical Industries PLC B.A.T Industries PLC 1976-98; Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor; disapproval If you refer to a social or political activity as an industry, you are criticizing it because you think it involves a lot of people in unnecessary or useless work. Some Afro-Caribbeans are rejecting the whole race relations industry; Businesses concerned with goods as opposed to services; Industry (Industrial) Making or manufacturing goods; A particular industry consists of all the people and activities involved in making a particular product or providing a particular service. the motor vehicle and textile industries; the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "each industry has its own trade publications; A group of archaeological assemblages found over a specific region or time whose artifacts are similar; A term which is used to describe repeated finds of an assemblage of a single class of objects, such as flint tools, at one or more sites; Vital, Health and Nutrition; There are three ways of identifying industry or industrial production; The main business activity of this stock symbol; An industry is the most detailed category available in NAICS to describe business activities NAICS provides hundreds of separate industry categories, unique categories that reflect different methods used to produce goods and services Statistical agencies use industry categories to classify, collect, process, publish, and analyze business statistics The census uses industry categories to customize census forms, combine information from establishments in the same industry, and publish census statistics; The business of making goods, and selling those goods to make money Some industries at the time of Confederation were shipbuilding, railway and canal construction, and the production of farming tools; The American Community Survey uses the industry classification system developed for the 2000 census This system consists of 265 categories for employed people, classified into 20 sectors The 2000 census classification was developed from the 1997 NAICS published by the Executive Office of the President Office of Management and Budget; a group of firms producing a similar product (chapter 9); Concerns primarily engaged in the same kind of economic activity are classified in the same industry regardless of their types of ownership (such as sole proprietorship, partnership or corporation) The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) classifies approximately 1,000 activities as industries under NAICS For each industry, except those in the Sector of public administration, SBA has established a size standard Industries are described in detail in North American Industry Classification System - United States, 1997 It can be found in many libraries or purchased from the National Technical Information Service, by calling (800) 553-6847 or (703) 605-6000
industry analysis: {i} comparison of the relationship between various companies working in the same field
industry analyst: an analyst of conditions affecting a particular industry
industry consultant: professional advisor on industrial matters
industry standard: A voluntary, industry-developed document that establishes requirements for products, practices, or operations
industry standard: A standard that has been formally adopted by an entire industry for common usage
industry standard: A group of values and skills relevant to job performance in a particular industry The term is used within the S/NVQ framework
industry standard: (n ) A process, protocol, or hardware specification that has been accepted and adopted by the computer industry Standardization occurs through a rigorous ANSI and ISO procedure, or through industry-wide acceptance; for example, Ethernet
industry standard: Average financial values for a selected industry to which a company can compare its economic standing
industry standard: The term used to describe the physical condition of a property that meets the standards for acceptance as collateral for a mortgage loan
industry standard: The procedure accepted by the overwhelming majority of commercial organisations as best practice for carrying out a business process
intra-industry: Within the same industry
intra-industry trade: Intra-industry trade refers to the exchange of products belonging to the same industry. The term is usually applied to international trade, where the same kinds of goods and services are both imported and exported
captain of industry: A prominent business person who owns or is the highest-ranking executive of one or more major firms, especially one who has considerable wealth and influence
It was he who maneuvered a captain of industry, steelmaker Francis Mer, rather than a government mandarin into the finance minister's job.
captains of industry: plural form of captain of industry
cottage industry: A small-scale industry, with relatively few employees or a limited customer base or low economic impact
Microfinance, once a relative cottage industry championed by antipoverty activists and development wonks, is on the verge of a revolution, with billions of dollars from big banks, private-equity shops and pension funds pouring in.
cottage industry: A job or occupation carried out at home or on a part-time basis
A craft such as quilting may be pursued as a hobby or as a cottage industry.
film industry: the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking
heavy industry: production of products which are either heavy in weight or in the processes leading to their production
light industry: Any industry that does not require high capitalization or heavy machinery
primary industry: An industry that processes raw materials for conversion by secondary industry into goods or services sold by tertiary industry to provide goods or services to consumers
quaternary industry: The sector of industry that involves the intellectual services: research, development, and information. It is considered the fourth basic industry
secondary industry: An industry that processes raw materials produced by primary industry into goods suitable for tertiary industry to provide goods or services to consumers
service industry: An industry that does not produce any goods, but only provides a service such as a bank or insurance company
smokestack industry: An industry or any large manufacturing facility that utilizes one or more smokestacks to dispose of unwanted materials into the atmosphere
tertiary industry: An industry that provide goods or services to consumers using raw materials from primary industry and goods processed by secondary industry
ındustry: {n} diligence, attention, an endeavor
culture industry: Culture industry is a term coined by Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), who argued that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods to manipulate the masses into passivity; the easy pleasures available through consumption of popular culture make people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances. Adorno and Horkheimer saw this mass-produced culture as a danger to the more difficult high arts. Culture industries may cultivate false needs; that is, needs created and satisfied by capitalism. True needs, in contrast, are freedom, creativity, or genuine happiness. Herbert Marcuse was the first to demarcate true needs from false needs
nationalised industry: (Ekonomi) An industry whose ownership has been taken over by the state. Motives for nationalization varied: in some cases industries were nationalized because they were natural monopolies, such as public utilities, so that public ownership was expected to give consumers a better deal. Some industries were nationalized because large subsidies were neeeded to avoid run-downs in output and employment. In other cases the aim was to reduce the power of private capitalists, and take public control of ‘the commanding …
resource extraction industry: Resource extraction and resource extraction industry both refer to the practice of locating, acquiring and selling any resource, but typically a natural resource
secondary industry: (Ekonomi) Industry that converts raw materials into commodities and products; manufacturing industry
Mousterian industry: Tool culture traditionally associated with the Neanderthals in Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa during the early fourth (Würm) glacial period ( 40,000 BC). The Mousterian tool assemblage included small hand axes made from disk-shaped cores; flake tools such as scrapers and points; toothed, sawlike instruments produced by making notches on a flake; and round limestone balls, believed to have served as bolas. Wooden spears were used to hunt large game such as the mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. Mousterian implements disappeared abruptly from Europe with the passing of the Neanderthals
Solutrean industry: Short-lived stone-tool industry that flourished 17,000-21,000 years ago in southwestern France (e.g., at La Solutré and Laugerie-Haute) and in nearby areas. The industry is of special interest because of its particularly fine workmanship. In addition to burins (chisel-like tools), scrapers, and borers, the Solutrean industry exhibits blades formed in the shape of laurel or willow leaves and various shouldered points. Some implements are so fine as to be useless as tools and may instead have been luxury items
coal industry: a producer of coal
computer industry: a manufacturer of computers
cottage industry: "Cottage Industry" means an enterprise which is conducted accessory to a residential use and complies with the limitations in the County zoning code Although a use permit is not required, a business license and other permits such as building or health permits may be required
film industry: those involved in producing and distributing movies
heavy industry: large-scale manufacturing, industry which uses large amounts of capital and labor (i.e. the manufacture of automobiles, industrial machinery, steel, etc.)
home industry: manufacture at home, home production; product that is produced at home
industries: plural of industry
light industry: Light industry is industry in which only small items are made, for example household goods and clothes. industry that produces small goods, for example computers, in small factories using light machinery heavy industry
light industry: Nonpolluting manufacturers or businesses
military industry: industry that produces military equipment and supplies
movie industry: {i} film industry, motion-picture industry, screenland, filmdom
munitions industry: an industry that manufacturers weapons of war
service industry: an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects
shoe industry: an industry that manufactures and sells shoes
small industry: small workshops
tourist industry: branch that deals with tourism in a country, hotel and vacation industry, development of tourist attractions
trucking industry: an industry that provides transportation for commercial products

industry

Hyphenation

in·dus·try

Turkish pronunciation

îndıstri

Synonyms

diligence, application, sector, field, manufacturing, big business, business, commerce, commercial enterprise, corporation, management, manufactory, megacorp, mob, monopoly

Antonyms

idleness, indolence, laziness, lethargy, unemployment, worthlessness

Pronunciation

/ˈəndəstrē/ /ˈɪndəstriː/

Etymology

() From French industrie Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”) industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ūst-, ūstr-, stem of ūrō (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ūstrī (“industry”), Old English andūstrian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).