WordNet
automobile industry
n. the manufacturers of automobiles considered collectively
Usage examples of "automobile industry".
On Woodward Avenue the auto magnates had built the beautiful Detroit Institute of Arts, where, that very minute while Desdemona rode to her job interview, a Mexican artist named Diego Rivera was working on his own new commission: a mural depicting the new mythology of the automobile industry.
The idea that primitive industrial techniques foster uniformity, while advanced automated techniques favor diversity, is dramatized by recent changes in the automobile industry.
Consider, for instance, a well-known incident in the history of the American automobile industry.
The automobile industry fell into a quagmire of highly publicized troubles at the beginning of this decade.