OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 21281

cottage industry

Meanings (ES + gloss)
industria casera
A job or occupation carried out at home or on a part-time basis, historically often manufacturing work such as sewing, lacemaking, or spinning.
A craft such as quilting may be pursued as a hobby or as a cottage industry.
Near-synonym: proto-industry
industria artesanal
A small-scale industry, with relatively few employees or a limited customer base or low economic impact.
Customers quickly sensed the change when CA took over a company: The new owners vigorously enforced license agreements, often in the courts. A cottage industry soon sprang up to ad…
So why was there so much breathlessness about a blogger joining this emphatically non-exclusive club? Because the blogging story has become a cottage industry, a cultural fashion t…
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