The people engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise

Usage examples of industry.

You see, nothing made the tobacco industry happier than when the hapless antismoking lobby exaggerated the number of teen smokers.

There was the aphrodisia of her wealth and the ever-increasing influence she held in a male-dominated industry.

They date from the palmy days of Appenzell industry, before machinery had reduced the cost of the finer fabrics.

Manufacturing Arthurian history has been practically a national industry for the last eight hundred years.

Just as the LP was invented for connoisseurs and audiophiles but spawned an entire industry, electronic mail grew first among the elite community of computer scientists on theARPANET, then later bloomed like plankton across the Internet.

Only recently it has been revealed how the Fuggers of Augsburg and their allies endeavored to manipulate or to frustrate its work in the matter of government regulation of industry and commerce.

Ostensibly, they were a Bahraini engineer and an Omani accountant heading for Labuan on contract to the natural gas industry, and that was what Suleiman was filling in.

The extra time would allow Bedford to invest in and attract new industries like tourism.

Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk The bees sustained flight, its powerful sting, its intimacy with flowers and avoidance of all unwholesome things, the attachment of the workers to the queen - regarded throughout antiquity as the king - its singular swarming habits and its astonishing industry in collecting and storing honey and skill in making wax.

BUKO Pharma-Kampagne of Bielefeld in Germany--not to be confused with Hippo in my novel--is an independently financed, undermanned body of sane, well-qualified people who struggle to expose the misdeeds of the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in its dealings with the Third World.

Bionetics Laboratories, a subsidiary of Litton Industries, under contract to the National Cancer Institute, on the effects of 123 chemical compounds in bioassays on 20,000 mice covering periods of up to eighty-four weeks.

This industry likes to pretend the producer is some sort of blimpish general dozing in his HQ while the crews fight the battle.

The staple industry is boatbuilding, and there is an active coasting trade in fish, wine, wood and coal.

It seemed odd to Barry that someone with connections in the music and film industries would have a place out here in the middle of nowhere--but he was a novelist and refugee from California himself and should be the last person to generalize and stereotype about the type of people attracted to Bonita Vista.

Indications were that he had no Hollywood or music industry contacts, that he was a con man who had pulled similar stunts in other states and who had successfully scammed several Bonita Vista residents before disappearing.