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Definition: Industry |
IndustryNoun1. The people engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "each industry has its own trade publications". 2. The organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production". 3. Persevering determination to perform a task; "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "industry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Industry \In"dus*try\, noun; plural Industries. [Latin expression industria, compare to industrius diligent; of uncertain origin: compare to the French expression industrie.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Census | Information on industry relates to the kind of business conducted by a person's employing organization. For employed people the data refer to the person's job during the reference week. For those who worked at two or more jobs, the data refer to the job at which the person worked the greatest number of hours. Some examples of industrial groups shown in products include agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction; manufacturing; wholesale or retail trade; transportation and communication; personal, professional and entertainment services; and public administration. Related terms: Economic census, Employed. (references) |
| In the 1997 economic census data, U.S. industries are classified using a 5- or 6- digit NAICS code. Industry groups are represented by classification using a 4 digit NAICS code. Related term: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). (references) | |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are industrious, denotes that you will be unusually active in planning and working out ideas to further your interests, and that you will be successful in your undertakings. For a lover to dream of being industriously at work, shows he will succeed in business, and that his companion will advance his position. To see others busy, is favorable to the dreamer. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Economics | Term used to indicate all types of economic activity, including not only large but also small and medium-sized businesses whatever their legal status and manner of applying new technologies. The term also covers independent economic organizations, in particular chambers of commerce and industry and/or their equivalents, professional associations and organizations representing employers or employees. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Any distinct branch of business activity, in manufacturing, processing, or mining; any group of companies engaged in the same type of operation, or concerned with the same group of products. . Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A generic term for a distinct group of economic activities. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Labor | A group of establishments that produce similar products or provide similar services. For example, all establishments that manufacture automobiles are in the same industry. A given industry, or even a particular establishment in that industry, might have employees in dozens of occupations. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system groups similar establishments into industries. (references) |
Statistics | Data refer to employees in industry(mining, manufacturing, electricity, gas and water). Persons are considered to be employed if they are aged 16 or more and, during the reference week, had a job in the service of an employer or were self employed. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Data correspond to enterprise turnover defined as the total value(excluding VAT)of deliveries of goods and services liable to VAT(including exports)minus the amount of credit outstanding for these deliveries. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| An employment index which measures the changes in the total number of persons employed who are engaged in the productive activity of industry. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The predominant industry undertaken at the location at which the injury or disease occurred is recorded. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Data refer to all persons employed in the mining, manufacturing and electricity, gas and water industries as defined from 1990 by SE-SIC 92(based on NACE Rev. 1)Sections C, D, and E. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Data refer to persons employed in the mining, manufacturing, electricity, gas and water industries. Included are all persons who had worked for pay or profit(for at least one hour), unpaid family workers and persons with a job but not at work because of injury or sickness, vacation, strike, bad weather, mechanical breakdown or leave for personal reasons. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Industry can have one of three meanings:
The term survives in the second sense in the International Standard Industrial Classification and national variants, which identify sectors of economic activity for statistical and national accounting purposes.
- Economically or otherwise productive activity ("For all its brevity, the Wikipedia contribution was the fruit of his industry");
- A particular area of economic production ("the garment industry"), more properly described in non-manufacturing contexts as a sector or subsector; or
- That part of all economic activity comprising mining, manufacturing. construction and utility provision.
The third use of the term is that most likely to be encountered in everyday parlance, though its intended meaning may vary, sometimes coinciding with manufacturing proper, as in "an industrial worker" rather than "a miner" or "a builder".
Industry in the latter sense remains a key sector of production in most countries, contributing perhaps a third of world economic output (more than agriculture's share, but now less than that of the service sector).
Most industrial output remains in the manufacturing sector, especially among developed countries, though construction and mining remain substantial components overall.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Industry."
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Industry or market research is the acquisition of corporate intellegence on a broad range of issues including:see also: marketing, marketing research, marketing management
- Macroenvironment
- economy
- government
- legal
- technology
- ecological
- sociocultural
- Market Analysis and Competitor analysis
- market definition
- market size
- market segmentation
- industry structure and strategic groupings
- Porter 5 forces analysis
- supply chain
- competition and market share
- competitors' strengths and weaknesses
- market trends
- Consumer Analysis or Marketing research
- nature of the buying decision
- participants
- demographics
- psychographics
- buyer motivation and expectations
- loyalty segments
List of Marketing Topics List of Management Topics List of Economics Topics List of Accounting Topics List of Finance Topics List of Economists Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Industry or market research."
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Industry is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 777.Geography
Industry is located at 34°0'57" North, 117°57'3" West (34.015778, -117.950804)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 30.8 km² (11.9 mi²). 30.4 km² (11.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.5 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.51% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 777 people, 121 households, and 93 families residing in the city. The population density is 25.6/km² (66.3/mi²). There are 124 housing units at an average density of 4.1/km² (10.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 54.83% White, 4.25% African American, 2.70% Native American, 3.86% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 29.47% from other races, and 4.89% from two or more races. 60.23% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 121 households out of which 47.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.7% are married couples living together, 14.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 23.1% are non-families. 19.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 4.24 and the average family size is 4.60. In the city the population is spread out with 23.9% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 29.1% from 25 to 44, 18.9% from 45 to 64, and 19.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 37 years. For every 100 females there are 125.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 128.2 males. The median income for a household in the city is $49,423, and the median income for a family is $47,321. Males have a median income of $26,016 versus $7,292 for females. The per capita income for the city is $9,877. 14.5% of the population and 17.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 20.2% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Industry, California."
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Industry is a village located in McDonough County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 540.
Geography
Industry is located at 40°19'36" North, 90°36'23" West (40.326600, -90.606499)1.According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.2 km² (0.5 mi²). 1.2 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 540 people, 208 households, and 163 families residing in the village. The population density is 443.6/km² (1,146.2/mi²). There are 223 housing units at an average density of 183.2/km² (473.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 97.22% White, 0.37% African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.56% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.19% from other races, and 1.48% from two or more races. 0.93% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.There are 208 households out of which 33.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.4% are married couples living together, 13.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 21.2% are non-families. 20.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.60 and the average family size is 2.99.
In the village the population is spread out with 29.4% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 22.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 93.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 83.2 males.
The median income for a household in the village is $35,455, and the median income for a family is $42,500. Males have a median income of $29,583 versus $18,068 for females. The per capita income for the village is $14,411. 13.8% of the population and 12.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 22.9% are under the age of 18 and 17.6% are 65 or older.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Industry, Illinois."
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Industry is a town located in Franklin County, Maine. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 790.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 80.8 km² (31.2 mi²). 77.6 km² (30.0 mi²) of it is land and 3.2 km² (1.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 3.94% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 790 people, 306 households, and 219 families residing in the town. The population density is 10.2/km² (26.4/mi²). There are 487 housing units at an average density of 6.3/km² (16.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.35% White, 0.63% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.01% from two or more races. 0.51% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 306 households out of which 28.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.7% are married couples living together, 4.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 28.4% are non-families. 20.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.58 and the average family size is 2.97. In the town the population is spread out with 25.9% under the age of 18, 6.3% from 18 to 24, 30.1% from 25 to 44, 24.6% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 101.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 101.7 males. The median income for a household in the town is $32,292, and the median income for a family is $36,875. Males have a median income of $29,375 versus $18,875 for females. The per capita income for the town is $14,403. 18.1% of the population and 13.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 20.6% are under the age of 18 and 18.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Industry, Maine."
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Industry is a borough located in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 1,921.Geography
Industry is located at 40°39'22" North, 80°24'34" West (40.656017, -80.409538)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 27.4 km² (10.6 mi²). 25.5 km² (9.8 mi²) of it is land and 1.9 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 6.82% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,921 people, 772 households, and 581 families residing in the borough. The population density is 75.4/km² (195.2/mi²). There are 816 housing units at an average density of 32.0/km² (82.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough is 96.88% White, 1.93% African American, 0.05% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.57% from other races, and 0.42% from two or more races. 1.41% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 772 households out of which 28.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.0% are married couples living together, 9.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 24.7% are non-families. 22.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.47 and the average family size is 2.85. In the borough the population is spread out with 21.3% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 26.1% from 25 to 44, 27.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 43 years. For every 100 females there are 98.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 94.2 males. The median income for a household in the borough is $38,125, and the median income for a family is $43,571. Males have a median income of $34,667 versus $22,731 for females. The per capita income for the borough is $18,337. 8.1% of the population and 6.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 14.0% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Industry, Pennsylvania."
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Industry is a city located in Austin County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 304.Geography
Industry is located at 29°58'21" North, 96°30'9" West (29.972597, -96.502529)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.8 km² (1.1 mi²). 2.7 km² (1.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.87% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 304 people, 119 households, and 84 families residing in the city. The population density is 112.9/km² (291.0/mi²). There are 142 housing units at an average density of 52.7/km² (135.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 69.41% White, 19.74% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 9.21% from other races, and 1.64% from two or more races. 10.53% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 119 households out of which 32.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.3% are married couples living together, 9.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.4% are non-families. 26.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 16.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.55 and the average family size is 3.11. In the city the population is spread out with 26.0% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 23.7% from 25 to 44, 24.0% from 45 to 64, and 16.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 101.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 94.0 males. The median income for a household in the city is $30,625, and the median income for a family is $38,750. Males have a median income of $25,500 versus $23,542 for females. The per capita income for the city is $13,294. 22.4% of the population and 15.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 31.6% are under the age of 18 and 28.6% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Industry, Texas."
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The Secondary sector of industry is the manufacturing sector of industry. This sector of industry generally takes the output of the primary sector and manufactures finished goods or products to a point where they are suitable for use by other businesses, for export, or sale to domestic consumers. This sector is often divided into light industry and heavy industry. Many of these industries consume large quantities of energy and require factories and machinery to convert the raw materials into goods and products. They also produce waste materials and waste heat that may pose environmental problems or cause pollution.Divisions of this sector include the Aircraft, Automobile manufacturers, Brewing industry Chemical industry Engineering Energy industries including the production of petroleum, gas and Electric power Steel production Tobacco industry Radio, and Telephone industries.
See also:
- Primary sector of industry
- Tertiary sector of industry
- Industrial policy
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Secondary sector of industry."
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The tertiary sector of industry is also known as the service industry. It involves the provision of services to other businesses or people. Services may involve the transport, distribution and sale of goods from producer to a consumer as may happen in wholesaling and retailing, or may involve the provision of a service, such as in tourism or entertainment. The goods may be transformed in the process of providing the service, as happens in the restaurant industry. There may not even be any goods involved, as in the sex industry. However the focus is on people interacting with people and serving the customer rather than transforming goods.It sector includes all types of services ranging from lawyers and consultantss to your local hairdresser (tourism is also a major branch). For the last 20 years there has been a substantial shift from the other two industry sectors to the Tertiary Sector in industrialised countries.
Public utilities are often considered part of the tertiary sector as they provide services to people, while the creating the utility's infrastructure is often considered part of the secondary sector, even thought the same business may be involved in both aspects of the operation.
- Franchising
- Restaurants
- Retailing
- Entertainment, including the Record industry, Music industry, Radio, Television and Movies.
- News media
- Leisure industry
See also:
- Primary sector of industry
- Secondary sector of industry
- Industrial policy
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tertiary sector of industry."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| INFO 2000 | English | Multiannual Community programme to stimulate the development of a European multimedia content industry and to encourage the use of multimedia content in the emerging information society | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: IndustrySynonyms: diligence (n), industriousness (n), manufacture (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Industry, assiduity; assiduousness; Adjective: sedulity; laboriousness; drudgery; (labor); painstaking, diligence; perseverance; a; indefatigation; habits of business. |
Business | Vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade; (commerce). |
Exertion | Labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow, swink, drudgery, slavery, fagging, hammering; limae labor; industry, industriousness, operoseness, operosity. |
News | Media, news media, the press, the information industry; newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication; radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission). |
Workshop | Hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary; armory; laboratory, lab, refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor;beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery; furnace; vineyard. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Industry |
| English words defined with "industry": arms industry ♦ cottage industry ♦ growth industry ♦ industry analyst ♦ lighting industry ♦ munitions industry ♦ oil industry ♦ plastics industry ♦ refining industry ♦ service industry, shipbuilding industry, shoe industry, sign industry, steel industry ♦ tobacco industry, toy industry, trucking industry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "industry": basic industry ♦ Electronics Industry Association, Extraction and Processing Industry ♦ Food Industry ♦ industry fund, Industry Quick Report, Industry Standard Architecture, Infant Industry Argument ♦ Knights of Industry ♦ North American Industry Classification System ♦ primary industry ♦ Telecommunications Industry Association, textile industry. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "industry": Stocah. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, I'm sure there have been marvelous advances in the industry, but surely you must have some sort of training program (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) And then it just becomes an industry of cool (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) The old world will burn in the fires of industry. Forests will fall (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) He was the guerilla terrorist in the food service industry. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) All God's creatures do it. You look in the forests and you see species killing other species, our species killing all species including the forests, and we just call it industry, not murder (Natural Born Killers; writing credit: David Veloz) | |
Lyrics | Industry shady it need to be taken over (Izzo (H.O.V.A.); performing artist: Jay-Z) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Passionate Industry (1971) Forest Industry (1970) Museum of Science and Industry (1948) The Chewing Gum Industry (1922) Prince Edward Island in Motion; Home of the Silver Black Fox Industry (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A Pinckney Island Industry Moonshine in the Southeast. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | "The Whaling Industry at Grays Harbor". In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 157. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Tuna Park - a park dedicated to the Tuna Fishing industry. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | NOAA Ship SURVEYOR as seen from memorial to whaling industry. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Los Ferroles fishmeal plant processes small pelagic species for consumption by the aquaculture industry, chickens, pigs, and ruminants. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Fishmeal plant at La Planchada processes small pelagic species for consumption by the aquaculture industry, chickens, pigs, and ruminants. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | In 1997, a partnership of industry and government rebuilt AQUARIUS. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | King crab caught on MILLER FREEMAN. Average weight 6-8 pounds of which about 25 per cent is edible. The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries was instrumental in helping develop the King Crab industry. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 4. Li-Cor photometer. This photometer was investigated by Dr. Jean Brouardel in 1974 in a quest for instruments of greater precision. He investigated several including a Li-Cor quantum/radiometer/photometer developed by industry especially for measuring light in water or in air in relation to photosynthesis. Construction date and details of study conditions are unknown. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | A growing industry in New Mexico, these vineyards were recently planted in Rio Arriba County. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
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| "Industry sunset I" by Adam Nieszporek Commentary: "Sunset in my town ." | "Industry 01" by Chrien Károly Commentary: "Industrial building in the sunset." |
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 | Factory; manufacturing; manufacture; industry; industrial; automated; factory-made; industry; industrialized; machine-made; manufactured; manufacturing; mechanical; mechanized; smokestack; streamlined; assembly line. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Industry need not wish. |
| Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. | |
Charles Dickens | Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. |
David Hume | Avarice, the spur of industry. |
John Ray | Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left. |
John Ruskin | Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Love of bustle is not industry. |
Oliver Goldsmith | Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. |
| Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But, on the contrary, the inhabitants think themselves beholden to him, who, by his industry on neglected, and consequently waste land, has increased the stock of corn, which they wanted. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Modern industry has established the world-market, for which the discovery of America paved the way. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | It will edit and publish in French and English, and in such other languages as the Governing Body may think desirable, a periodical paper dealing with problems of industry and employment of international interest. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | If the population of the English-speaking Commonwealths be added to that of the United States with all that such co-operation implies in the air, on the sea, all over the globe and in science and in industry, and in moral force, there will be no quivering, precarious balance of power to offer its temptation to ambition or adventure. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They raised the material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Now farming became industry, and the owners followed Rome, although they did not know it. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | That among other animals, bees and ants had the reputation of more industry, art and sagacity, than many of the larger kinds |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | At each step, the NIA is fostering industry participation. (references) | |
You can scan the news by industry category or company name. (references) | ||
The tanning industry is rapidly growing in the United States. (references) | ||
Business | Many magazines are industry specific. (references) | |
Tourism is a fast growing industry in Argentina. (references) | ||
The company invested $14 million in the industry. (references) | ||
Children | Dominican Republic | Some in the tourist industry have facilitated the sexual exploitation of children; particular areas of concern are Boca Chica and Puerto Plata. (references) |
Dominican Republic | In July the National Prosecutor's Office and the Association of Hotels signed an agreement to combat the exploitation of children in the tourist industry. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Congo | A 1996 Press law regulates the newspaper industry. (references) |
Economic History | India | Indian packaging industry. (references) |
Somalia | Most industry defunct since 1991. (references) | |
Korea | Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry Bldg. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | Guerrillas, usually the ELN, caused massive damage to the country's power industry and increases in electricity rates for consumers. (references) |
Oman | The ASCD is made up of the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, a number of judges appointed by royal decree, and members of the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry. (references) | |
Spain | Several of these attempts were directed at the tourist industry, including June car bombings in Logrono and San Sebastian, and August car bombings in the Madrid airport parking facility and the resort town of Salou. (references) | |
Minorities | Peru | Afro-Peruvians are often portrayed unflatteringly by the entertainment industry as individuals of questionable character. (references) |
Cameroon | Prospective economic and political liberalization is perceived widely as being likely to harm these groups, and to favor other groups, such as the large Bamileke and Anglophone ethnic-cultural groups of the west, whose members tended to be more active in private commerce and industry and have tended to support the SDF since the legalization of opposition parties. (references) | |
Kenya | The Kikuyu and the closely related Kamba, Meru, and Embu groups make up more than one-third of the country's population; members of these groups also dominate much of private commerce and industry and have tended to support opposition parties since they were legalized in 1992. The Kikuyu, the largest, best-educated, and most prosperous ethnic group, dominated the country under its first president, Jomo Kenyatta, a Kikuyu. (references) | |
Political Economy | Malawi | There is little industry and mining. (references) |
THAILAND | The usual workday in industry is eight hours. (references) | |
ROMANIA | The pace of reform in heavy industry has been even slower. (references) | |
Political Rights | Gabon | The PGP enjoys strong support in Port Gentil, the center of the country's petroleum industry, and among the Myene ethnic group. (references) |
Liechtenstein | In 2000 following a 1999 convention of women's organizations and political parties, the Government's Bureau for the Promotion of Equal Rights for Women and Men published an action plan, the implementation of which the bureau later discussed with representatives of Government, the political parties, industry, and the media. (references) | |
Trade | India | The EPGC scheme now applies to all industry sectors. (references) |
Travel | Greece | The bulk of Greek industry is located around 20 sea ports. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | There have been a few long-term leases (99 years) negotiated by members of the oil industry. (references) | |
Honduras | Exports (FIDE), National Industry Association (ANDI), and National Chambers of Commerce and Industry. (references) | |
Women | Ukraine | Few women attain top managerial positions in state and private industry. (references) |
Czech Republic | The Interior Ministry estimates that up to 25,000 persons worked in the sex industry during the year. (references) | |
Mauritania | Women became more involved in the fishing industry and established several women's fishing cooperatives. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Korea | Many become brides, but some work in the sex industry. (references) |
Zimbabwe | The strike caused serious disruption to the milling industry. (references) | |
Thailand | The petrochemical industry is excluded from these regulations. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RAPACITY, n. Providence without industry. The thrift of power. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Robert Novak | In the short time left for this year's session of Congress, the Senate faces partisan struggles over an economic stimulus bill and aid to farmers and the insurance industry. |
Rush Limbaugh | An industry trade publication noted that Federal City lost one and a half million dollars in its first three years in business. |
Senator Paul Sarbanes | Well, here's your choice. At the moment, the accounting industry is overseen by the accounting industry. That's not working very well. |
Ted Koppel | Texas is certainly one of the largest states in the country for prison population and in point of fact, there are even some prisoners who are being exported to Texas and are being warehoused in Texas because the Texans have really made an industry of it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Numerous as are the providential blessings which demand our grateful acknowledgments, the abundance with which another year has again rewarded the industry of the husbandman is too important to escape recollection. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | With the morals of the people, their industry also is destroyed. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Under this republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Where private industry cannot build, the Government must step in to do the job. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Most of this increase will be used to start a new partnership between government and private industry to train and to hire the hard-core unemployed persons. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Financing problems for that industry are worsening. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | That action has strengthened the domestic steel industry. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Better, more active harbors translate into stable jobs in our coalfields, railroads, trucking industry, and ports. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I also ask the auto industry to use the available technologies to make all new cars more fuel-efficient right away. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Industry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.91% of the time. "Industry" is used about 19,814 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.91% | 19,796 | 451 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.09% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19,814 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "industry". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Heshbon | N/A | Biblical | Industry |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| China | CITIC Guoan Information Industry | Germany | DCI Database for Commerce & Industry AG |
| Greece | Aloymil-Milonas Aluminium Industry SA | Hungary | Globus Canning Industry Reszvenytarsasag |
| Indonesia | Argha Karya Prima Industry Tbk. Pt. | Japan | Aichi Machine Industry Co., Ltd. |
| Malaysia | Bright Packaging Industry Berhad | New Zealand | Property for Industry Limited |
| South Korea | Dongwon Industry Co. Ltd. | Taiwan | Chou Chin Industry Co Ltd |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Industry, CA (city, FIPS 36490) 2. Industry, IL (village, FIPS 37439) 3. Industry, PA (borough, FIPS 36944) 4. Industry, TX |
Expressions using "industry": a hive of industry ♦ aerospace industry ♦ aircraft industry ♦ Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions ♦ aluminum industry ♦ apparel industry ♦ armaments industry ♦ arms industry ♦ automobile industry ♦ aviation industry ♦ banking industry ♦ basic industry ♦ battered industry ♦ biotechnology industry ♦ Book Industry ♦ branch of industry ♦ budding industry ♦ building industry ♦ captain of industry ♦ car industry ♦ catering industry ♦ chamber of industry ♦ chemical industry ♦ clothing industry ♦ cloud resulting from industry ♦ coal industry ♦ computer industry ♦ construction industry ♦ cottage industry ♦ cotton industry ♦ craft industry ♦ crippling industry ♦ dairy industry ♦ decline of industry ♦ defense industry ♦ domestic industry ♦ drug industry ♦ electronics industry ♦ electronics Industry Association ♦ energy industry ♦ engineering industry ♦ entertainment industry ♦ European Electronic Industry EDI Association ♦ export industry ♦ extended industry standard architecture ♦ Extraction and Processing Industry ♦ extractive industry ♦ fashion industry ♦ film industry ♦ Food Industry ♦ Food-Processing Industry ♦ footwear industry ♦ forest industry ♦ furniture industry ♦ glass industry ♦ growth industry ♦ heavy industry ♦ hightec industry ♦ home building industry ♦ housing industry ♦ industry analyst ♦ industry and commerce ♦ industry fund ♦ Industry Standard ♦ industry Standard Architecture ♦ infant industry ♦ information industry ♦ iron and steel industry ♦ iron industry ♦ key industry ♦ Knight of industry ♦ leather industry ♦ light industry ♦ lighting industry ♦ luxury goods industry ♦ manufacturing industry ♦ Meat-Packing Industry ♦ metallurgical industry ♦ mining industry ♦ minister of industry ♦ ministry of industry ♦ ministry of industry and technology ♦ motor industry ♦ movie industry ♦ munitions industry ♦ North Industry ♦ oil industry ♦ paper industry ♦ pharmaceutical industry ♦ pig industry ♦ plastic industry ♦ plastics industry ♦ primary industry ♦ principal industry ♦ process industry ♦ processing industry ♦ provisions industry ♦ refinery industry ♦ refining industry ♦ refrigeration industry ♦ rubber industry. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "industry": industry-attractiveness, industry-backed, industry-based, industry-by-industry, industry-chart, industry-conscious, industry-consulting, industry-controlled, industry-could, industry-defined, industry-education, industry-falls, industry-first, industry-funded, industry-generated, industry-leading, industry-led, industry-level, industry-making, industry-mix, industry--one, industry-oriented, industry-related, industry-relevant, industry-run, Industry-science, industry-side, industry-specific, industry-sponsored, industry-standard, industry-supported, industry-type, industry-watchers, industry-wide. | |
Ending with "industry": academic-industry, cross-industry, government-industry, inter-industry, intra-industry, school-industry, schools-industry. | |
Containing "industry": European Computer-Industry Research Centre GmbH, oil-industry analyst. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |