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industry

/in-duh-stree/US // ˈɪn də stri //UK // (ˈɪndəstrɪ) //

行业,工业,产业,业界

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural in·dus·tries for 1, 2, 7.

    • : the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
    • : any general business activity; commercial enterprise: the Italian tourist industry.
    • : trade or manufacture in general: the rise of industry in Africa.
    • : the ownership and management of companies, factories, etc.: friction between labor and industry.
    • : systematic work or labor.
    • : energetic, devoted activity at any work or task; diligence: Her teacher praised her industry.
    • : the aggregate of work, scholarship, and ancillary activity in a particular field, often named after its principal subject: the Mozart industry.
    • : Archaeology. an assemblage of artifacts regarded as unmistakably the work of a single prehistoric group.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounhard work
Forms: industries

Examples

  • Justice’s companies have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for those violations, which are fairly common and seen as a cost of doing business in the coal industry.

  • In this analogy, each year represents seven years in this industry — because they are very intense ones.

  • Nonetheless, the coronavirus crisis is likely to lead to long-term changes for the TV and streaming industry.

  • He bolstered the sales staff and set out after new customers in finance, healthcare, and other industries.

  • Investors and consultants said the dispute troubled them, especially given Murray’s status at the firm and in the financial industry overall.

  • The fashion industry could never, would never, state its exclusion of black models overtly.

  • But now his politics were offending the progressive sensibilities of the American film industry.

  • The airline industry objects that sometimes these deployable recorders can pop out without cause, spreading needless alarm.

  • Religious profiteering has spread beyond the tourism industry.

  • In 2015 I am looking forward to working with more people in the industry and doing crazier and crazier scenes!

  • His superior talents and untiring industry were under the direction of philanthropic and Christian impulses.

  • But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.

  • Here and there exceptional industry or extraordinary capacity raised the artisan to wealth and turned the "man" into the "master."

  • Peace, also—or peace under the old conditions of industry—is infinitely wasteful of human energy.

  • Industrial society, they say, must be reorganized from top to bottom; private industry must cease.