industry
Commerce and manufacturing
Industry is sustained, energetic work toward a goal—the opposite of idleness: She was known for her industry and determination.
The word also denotes economic sectors producing goods or services: the automotive industry, the film industry, the tech industry.
An industry has grown up around something when commercial activity proliferates: There's a whole industry devoted to celebrity gossip.
Industrial production facility
- assemblyConstructing from components
- productionMaking or generating something
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
mass-production · automation · robotics · conveyor · foundry · welding · metalworking · plastics
Exchange of commodities
- businessCommercial activity or occupation
- marketplaceVenue for commerce
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- enterpriseCommercial undertaking or initiative
corporation · conglomerate · multinational · import · export · supply · demand · competition
All available workers
- employmentPaid occupation status
- unionsCombinations or confederations
- wagesPayment for work
- shiftsMoves or work periods
blue-collar · payroll · workers · apprenticeship · craftsmanship · overtime · laborers · technicians
Cultivation of land, livestock
- miningExtracting earth's resources
- forestryManaging wooded land
- fishingCatching aquatic creatures
- energyPower to do work
utilities · construction · real-estate · transportation · healthcare · tourism · entertainment · telecommunications
Sustained resolve despite obstacles
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- effortApplied energy toward goals
- productivityOutput relative to input
- driveOperate a vehicle
ambition · hustle · tirelessness · determination · assiduousness · application · commitment · zeal
factory
Industrial production facility
- assemblyConstructing from components
- productionMaking or generating something
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
fabrication · mass-production · automation · robotics · conveyor · foundry · welding · metalworking · plastics · molding
trade
Exchange of commodities
- businessCommercial activity or occupation
- marketplaceVenue for commerce
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
enterprise · corporation · conglomerate · multinational · import · export · supply · demand · competition · merger
workforce
All available workers
- employmentPaid occupation status
- unionsCombinations or confederations
- wagesPayment for work
shifts · blue-collar · payroll · workers · apprenticeship · craftsmanship · overtime · laborers · technicians · journeymen
agriculture
Cultivation of land, livestock
energy · utilities · construction · real-estate · transportation · healthcare · tourism · entertainment · telecommunications · pharmaceuticals
perseverance
Sustained resolve despite obstacles
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- effortApplied energy toward goals
- productivityOutput relative to input
drive · ambition · hustle · tirelessness · determination · assiduousness · application · commitment · zeal
- business termsfranchising, revenue stream, board meeting, gross margin, markdown
- capitalismcapitalism, free market, free enterprise, private property, profit motive
- civilizationempires, empire, civilizations, dynasty, kingdoms
- economyGDP, money, inflation, inflation rate, GNP
- work termsboss, job, manager, career, company
- big businesscorporation, merger, acquisition, board room, stocks
industrylaziness
Unwillingness to exert oneself
idleness · sloth · indolence · lethargy · inactivity
industryagriculture
Cultivation of land, livestock
artisanship · handicraft · preindustrial · craft · cottage industry
- healthcare industryBusinesses providing medical services
- industry leadersDominant companies in field
- American industryCommercial production in America
- industrial zoneArea designated for factories
- gas industryFossil fuel production sector
- industrial siteManufacturing or processing facility
industrial, industrious, industries, industrialist, industriousness, industrialized, industriously, industrialization, industrialize