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Definition of Industry
Industry

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.

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.

Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.

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Industry Quotations

When we go into an industry, we go all the way.
Charles Phillips

Industry need not wish.
Benjamin Franklin

11 years is a long time in this industry.
Steve McConnell

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

I would never want any of my kids to go into this industry; not until they are old enough to understand and if this is something that they really want to do.
Morris Chestnut

Industry Translations

industry in Afrikaans is industrie, nywerheid
industry in Danish is flid
industry in Dutch is vlijt, naarstigheid, ijver
industry in French is application, industrie
industry in German is Industrie
industry in Italian is applicazione, diligenza, industria
industry in Latin is diligentia
industry in Spanish is empresa, industria
industry in Swedish is industri


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