| 单词 | extractive industry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasextractive industry 2. Concerned with extraction; tending to extract or remove resources or products; spec. extractive industry, an industry concerned with obtaining natural products, esp. non-replaceable raw materials such as coal, metallic ore, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [adjective] > connected with extraction gold-digging1778 extractive1848 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. i. ii. §3 Labour employed in producing materials, on which industry is to be afterwards employed..is, in many cases, a labour of mere appropriation; extractive industry, as it has been aptly termed by M. Dunoyer. 1888 Sc. Leader 9 Apr. 5 Land used for the purposes of extractive industry. 1890 Harper's Mag. Nov. 921/1 They too abound..in what the French call the extractive industries. 1907 H. W. Macrosty Trust Movement iv. 106 The extractive industries dealing with stone and similar products. 1942 Rep. Comm. Land Utilization ix. 61 in Parl. Papers 1941–2 (Cmd. 6378) IV. 421 Extractive Industries. These comprise all the mining and quarrying industries. 1962 Listener 1 Feb. 205/2 The interest the West has shown towards Latin America has been a commercial, essentially an extractive, interest. < as lemmas |
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