单词 | service industry |
释义 | > as lemmasservice industry f. Of, relating to, or involving economic activity which supplies the needs of consumers but is not concerned with the production or manufacture of tangible goods (cf. sense 35), as in service economy, service industry, service sector, etc. ΚΠ 1896 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 10 256 The whole group of service industries of course follow the consumer. 1921 Proc. 8th Ann. Meeting Internat. Assoc. Public Employment Services 56 The public employment office..is a service organization. 1937 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 17 421 The transition from a service economy to a monetary system rendered the nobility and gentry..unusually sensitive to the fluctuations of monetary values. 1941 Amer. Econ. Rev. 31 516 There is no reason for supposing that the degree of monopoly power is greater in the service than in the non-service sector. 1959 Times 5 Sept. 10/3 The rapid expansion of service occupations—administration, the professions, retailing, entertainment and numerous health and welfare services. 1966 Listener 5 May 642/2 There is to be a selective employments tax to help get workers out of service industries into the factories. 2006 D. Edgerton Shock of Old (2008) iii. 70 A number of analysts have..identified this growth in service employment with the rise of an ‘information society’. 2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Nov. a12/1 (advt.) The FTZ..is not about manufacturing but the opening-up of China's service sector..to the rest of the world. 2014 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 3 Apr. 36/2 Head shows how a ‘concierge’ economy for the very rich has grown up side by side with the defective service economy for everyone else. < as lemmas |
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