Definition of "industry" in English

noun

1. (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.

   • Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.

2. (countable, business, economics) 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.

3. (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

4. (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.

   • There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.

5. (Europe software patent law) Automated production of material goods.

6. (archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.