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n. (cottage industry English)
Usage examples of "cottage industries".
Then he was at last free to get villagers to sing or to take up cottage industries.
They proved to be skillful farmers and artisans and thrived at a host of cottage industries: weaving, shoemaking, wood carving, cabinet-making, leather-craft work, pottery, and so on.
In Merovingen as an example, there are traders, there are cottage industries and small operations like goldsmithing.
The factories or the cottage industries or whatever send their goods in bulk for storage here and the warehouse supplies the shops on demand.
With its priestesses and its orgies and its cottage industries, its secret reliance on the wider economy of New Crobuzonthe vastness of which was usually depicted airily as a kind of adjunct to KinkenLin realized that she was living in an unsustainable realm.
Thus mixed in with the lyrical passages describing his love for Sarah, there was interminable information on crops and trade, lists of cottage industries and analyses of local customs, all strung together in what was in effect an exhaustive diary of his travels.
Until then, they abandoned what they could not support and ran the towns and the cottage industries and the farms the way she'd set them up.
Even drew a tiny, stylized hummer for stationery, envelopes, and cards and had it silkscreened onto the sweatshirts she often wore as she sat in front of the computer, daily attending to details of the business (cottage industries, they used to call them) that kept us comfortable here.
And although in SF-almost uniquely in SF-the magazines verge on being cottage industries, directed by what amount to family-held small corporations and in at least one case produced, all but the printing and binding, in the publisher's own exurban home, it is nevertheless possible to see the magazines, too, from an accountant's point of view.