The Collaborative International Dictionary
Industry \In"dus*try\, n.; pl. Industries. [L. industria, cf. industrius diligent; of uncertain origin: cf. F. industrie.]
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Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.
We are more industrious than our forefathers, because in the present times the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater in proportion to those which are likely to be employed in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago.
--A. Smith. Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.
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(Polit. Econ.) Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.
Syn: Diligence; assiduity; perseverance; activity; laboriousness; attention. See Diligence.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of industry English)
Usage examples of "industries".
The couple could see the San Francisco lights, catch some late skiing in Washington or Vancouver, and Andrew could make a side trip to Genessee Industries in Palo Alto.
In short words, Genessee Industries has been engaged in a very efficient and massive cover-up.
For until this afternoon the vital papers concerning Genessee Industries had been kept in Tawning Spring.
Genessee Industries was, in its own way, a necessary line of the nation's defense.
And if he was correct, if De Spadante was in San Francisco, then there were side issues coming into play with Genessee Industries that he hadn't considered.
Falsifying designs to get Genessee Industries a hundred and five million of Defense funds.
Genessee Industries is progressively eliminating all the checks and balances.
And since the government is the predominant clientconsumer-of Genessee Industries, certain scholastic logic might be applicable.
Hamilton, my interest in your endeavors for Genessee Industries precedes the lawyer-client relationship.
Genessee Industries obviously had the wherewithal-more so than its competitors-and therefore became the major purchaser from Tamishito.
And remember, Genessee Industries has removed scores of major problems from his concerns.
The advance cue that a name would be forthcoming, and that name was the man Genessee Industries and the Pentagon wanted as President.
None of the uniformed services wanted to slide back to the days before Genessee Industries was such a large part of its line of supply.
Genessee Industries was in large measure dependent on government purchases.
Because any country that allows a Genessee Industries needs all the help it can get.