Cottage Industry

  

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Cottage Industry

Definition: Cottage Industry

Cottage Industry

Noun

1. Small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Non-Fiction Usage: Cottage Industry

SubjectTopicQuote

Worker Rights

Bhutan

Smaller industrial units include 39 plants of medium size, 345 small units, 832 cottage industry units, and 2,154 "mini" units. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cottage Industry

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cottage industry

71

agra cottage industry

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cottage Industry

Language Translations for "cottage industry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

domácký prùmysl. (various references)

   

German

  

heimindustrie. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οικοτεχνία. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

家内工業 (household or cottage industry). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かない"うぎょう (household or cottage industry). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ottagecay industryay

   

Russian 

  

кустарный подход (cottage industry style). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

småindustri, hemindustri. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ev içi üretimi sanayii. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Cottage Industry

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-i-n-o-r-s-t-t-t-u-y"

-4 letters: coattesting, constituted, countryseat, countryside, courtesying, degustation, designatory, destructing, destruction, detractions, eructations, outdistance, outstarting.

-5 letters: anecdotist, arytenoids, carnotites, constitute, contrasted, cornettist, curtseying, decorating, designator, destroying, detracting, detraction, discounter, discourage, educations, eructating, eructation, gratitudes, guttations, instructed, introduces, outreading, outstaring, outstarted, outstating, outstaying, outtrading, redactions, rediscount, reductants, reductions, restudying, rusticated, scattergun, scattering, scuttering, stationery, stuttering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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