| 单词 | industry |
| 释义 | industry (once / 43 pages) 1n 2n An industry is a group of manufacturers or businesses that produce a particular kind of goods or services. Workers in the textile industry design, fabricate, and sell cloth. The tourist industry includes all the commercial aspects of tourism. You can use industry to refer to a group of similar businesses: The automobile industry makes cars and car parts. The food service industry prepares food and delivers it to hotels, schools, and other big facilities. Industry comes from the Latin industria, which means "diligence, hard work," and the word is still used with that meaning. If you build a house in three weeks, when the same job takes everyone else three months, you're showing impressive industry. WORD FAMILYindustry: industrial, industries, industrious+/industrial: industrialer, industrialise, industrialism, industrialize, industrially, nonindustrial, postindustrial/industrialise: industrialisation, industrialised/industrialism: industrialisms, industrialist/industrialist: industrialists/industrialization: industrializations/industrialize: industrialization, industrialized, industrializes, industrializing/industrialized: unindustrialized/industrious: industriously, industriousness USAGE EXAMPLESAfter so many years of sales growth, the ebb and flow of the market cycle suggests the industry is due for some contraction. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) He started the Alabama Development Office to recruit industry to the state. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) “We will not allow any nation to dominate this industry and impede innovation through unfair trade practices and massive, non-market-based state intervention.” Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n the organized action of making of goods and services for sale American industry is making increased use of computers to control production Syn|Hypo|Hyper manufacture cottage industry small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment production(economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale industrial enterprise, industrialisation, industrializationthe development of industry on an extensive scale mass productionthe production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) overproduction, overruntoo much production or more than expected underproductioninadequate production or less than expected output, yieldproduction of a certain amount capacitythe maximum production possible breedingthe production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization brewingthe production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast cultivation(agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale) cultivationthe act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale) generationthe production of heat or electricity excavation, miningthe act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth quarryingthe extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry boring, drilling, oil productionthe act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum sericulturethe production of raw silk by raising silkworms business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects 2n the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise 2each industry has its own trade publications Hypo|Hyper aluminum business, aluminum industry manufacturers of aluminum considered as a group apparel industry, fashion business, fashion industry, garment industry, rag trademakers and sellers of fashionable clothing banking industry, banking systembanks collectively automobile industrythe manufacturers of automobiles considered collectively aviationthe operation of aircraft to provide transportation chemical industrythe manufacturers of chemicals considered collectively coal industrythe producers of coal considered collectively computer industrythe manufacturers of computers considered collectively construction industry, housing industryan industry that builds housing electronics industrythe manufacturers of electronic products considered collectively entertainment industry, show biz, show businessthose involved in providing entertainment: radio and television and films and theater film industry, movie industrythe entertainment industries involved in producing and distributing movies growth industryan industry that is growing rapidly lighting industryan industry devoted to manufacturing and selling and installing lighting arms industry, munitions industryan industry that manufacturers weapons of war oil business, oil industry, refining industryan industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products plastics industryan industry that manufactures plastic articles market, securities industrythe securities markets in the aggregate service industryan industry that provides services rather than tangible objects shipbuilding industryan industry that builds ships shoe industryan industry that manufactures and sells shoes sign industryan industry that produces signs steel industrythe industry that makes steel and steel products sunrise industrya new industry that is expanding rapidly (especially telecommunications or electronics) tobacco industryan industry that manufactures and sells products containing tobacco toy business, toy industryan industry that manufactures and sells toys for children trucking industryan industry that provides transportation for commercial products Bollywoodthe film industry of India filmdom, screen, screenlandthe personnel of the film industry Hollywoodthe film industry of the United States bear marketa market characterized by falling prices for securities bull marketa market characterized by rising prices for securities the Cityused to allude to the securities industry of Great Britain Wall Street, the Streetused to allude to the securities industry of the United States money marketa market for short-term debt instruments management consultinga service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business FCS, Farm Credit Systema cooperative nationwide system of banks and associations providing credit to farmers and related businesses; originally capitalized by the federal government but now owned by its members and borrowers hawalaan underground banking system based on trust whereby money can be made available internationally without actually moving it or leaving a record of the transaction commercial enterprise an enterprise connected with commerce n persevering determination to perform a task frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues Syn|Hypo|Hyper diligence, industriousness assiduity, assiduousness, concentration great and constant diligence and attention sedulity, sedulousnessthe quality of being constantly diligent and attentive studiousnessdiligent study engrossment, intentnessthe quality of being intent and concentrated singlenessthe quality of concentrating on one central objective bookishnessexaggerated studiousness determination, purpose the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose |
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