industry

noun

1. 1

   The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.

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

2. 2

   Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.

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

3. 3

   Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

4. 4

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

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

5. 5

   Automated production of material goods.

6. 6

   A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.