industry
pronunciation
How to pronounce industry in British English:
UK [ˈɪndəstri]
How to pronounce industry in American English:
US [ˈɪndəstri]
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- Noun:
- the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- the organized action of making of goods and services for sale
- persevering determination to perform a task
Word Origin
- industry
- industry: [15] Industry comes, partly via Old French industrie, from Latin industria, which meant ‘quality of being hard-working, diligence’. This was a derivative of the adjective industrius ‘diligent’, which went back to an Old Latin indostruus, formed from the prefix indu- ‘in’ (see INDIGENOUS) and the element -struus (a relative of the verb struere ‘build’, from which English gets construct, destroy, etc).=> construct, destroy, structure
- industry (n.)
- late 15c., "cleverness, skill," from Old French industrie "activity; aptitude" (14c.) or directly from Latin industria "diligence, activity, zeal," fem. of industrius "industrious, diligent," used as a noun, from early Latin indostruus "diligent," from indu "in, within" + stem of struere "to build" (see structure (n.)). Sense of "diligence, effort" is from 1530s; meaning "trade or manufacture" first recorded 1560s; that of "systematic work" is 1610s.
Example
- 1. The industry is still fragmented .
- 2. What about the record industry ?
- 3. The industry is already consolidating .
- 4. Every industry has an off-season .
- 5. The airline industry is one example .