OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12296

industry

/ˈɪndəstɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
industria
Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
industria
Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and…
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