Word Finder - industry

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The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.

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

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Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.

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The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.

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Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

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

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

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Automated production of material goods.

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A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.

He was at a place in the industry where he did what he pleased.

The mass food industry of today cannot make this claim.

The mining industry in Sardinia is confined in the main to the south-western portion of the island.

Vancouver is the centre of the important timber industry of British Columbia.

Housing is a huge industry that will reward innovative products.

Agriculture as an industry requires infrastructure.

Agriculture is the prevailing industry of Manitoba.

The first puddling works were opened in 1839, and Troy was long the centre of the New York iron and steel industry; in 1865 the second Bessemer steel works in the United States were opened here.

I'm in the food industry.

Although the abbey ale was mentioned as early as 1295, the brewing industry is comparatively of recent development, having begun about 1708.

The typically industrial region of France is the department of Nord, the seat of the woollen industry, but also prominently concerned in other textile industries, in metal working, and in a variety of other manufactures, fuel for which is supplied by its coal-fields.

Market gardening is an important industry.

Stock-raising is an important industry, especially in the eastern part of the state.

Hastings was a man of immense industry, with an insatiable appetite for detail.

It is a centre of the paper-making industry, with which the town has been connected since the 14th century.

A large number of cotton mills furnish the chief source of industry; printing, dyeing and bleaching of cotton and calico, spinning and weaving machine making, iron and steel works, and collieries in the neighbourhood, are also important.

Amritsar is famous for its carpet-weaving industry.

Cotton, cloth, gold and silver ornaments, copper wares, fancy articles in bone and ivory, excellent saddles and shoes are among the products of the local industry.

This industry is still maintained.

Cattle and sheep are produced in large numbers in some of the provinces, while in others mining forms the chief industry.

Agriculture is the main industry, generally combined with cattle-raising.

After the revocation of the edict of Nantes the settlement of some French refugees further stimulated this industry.

The cotton industry is distributed in three principal groups.

Silk.The silk industry occupied f34,000 hands in 1901.

The chief local bodies concerned with commerce and industry are the chambres de commerce and the chambres consultatives darts et manufactures, the members of which are elected from their own number by the traders and industrialists of a certain standing.

Trout may now be taken in many of the mountain streams. At one time whaling was an important industry on the coasts of New South Wales and Tasmania, and afterwards on the Western Australian coasts.

Of late years whaling has again attracted attention, and a small number of vessels prosecute the industry during the season.

Over 70,000 men are employed in the gold-mining industry, more than two-thirds of them being engaged in quartz mining.

Iron is distributed throughout Australia, but for want of capital for developing the fields this industry has not progressed.

Agriculture everywhere expanded, the mining industry revived, and, if it had not been for the low prices of staple products, the visible effects of the crisis would have passed away within a very few years.

Barre is the centre of the granite business, and the region about Rutland, especially Proctor, is the principal seat of the marble industry.

The wool-growing industry has been almost entirely destroyed by the competition of Australia and the West, and the people are now engaged mainly in dairy-farming, timbering, graniteand marble-quarrying, and in keeping summer boarders.

It is situated on the river Fal, and has some industry in tanning.

Among later residents commemorated is Edward Lloyd, who was the first person to show the value of esparto grass for the manufacture of paper, and thus started an industry which is one of the most important in Algeria.

The important silk industry, however, began to revive about 18go, and dairy farming is prosperous; but the condition of the vilayet is far less unsettled than that of Macedonia, owing partly to the preponderance of Moslems among the peasantry, and partly to the nearness of Constantinople, with its Western influences.

Strabo mentions linen-weaving as an ancient industry of Panopolis, and it is not altogether a coincidence that the cemetery of Akhmim is one of the chief sources of the beautiful textiles of Roman and Coptic age that are brought from Egypt.

After about five years great improvements were made in the working of the telegraphs and the industry began to make progress.

Among the men of business it was undoubtedly Sir John Pender (1815-1896) who contributed most to the development of this colossal industry, and to his unfailing faith in their ultimate realization must be ascribed the completion of the first successful Atlantic cables.

Gaine, general manager of the company, stated before the Select Committee that in the view of the directors the bargain was a hard one, because it gave no consideration in respect of the goodwill of the great business, with its gross income of over £ 2,000,000 per annum and its net revenue of over £750,000, which the company had built up. The company had had to pay for all the experiments and mistakes which are inherent in the launching and development of any new industry.

A secondary industry is the raising of goats, which are able to stand neglect and a scanty food supply.

The manufacture of macaroni and similar foodstuff is a characteristic Italian industry.

Italy has only unimportant lignite and anthracite mines, but water power is abundant and has been largely applied to industry, especially in generating electricity.

Handlooms and small spinTextiles ning establishments have, in the silk industry, given place to large establishments with steam looms. The production of raw silk at least tripled itself between 1875 and 1900, and the value of the silks woven in Italy, estimated in 1890 to be 2,200,000, is now, on account of the development of the export trade calculated to be almost 4,000,000.

The cotton industry has also rapidly developed.

The industry is chiefly developed in Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria; to some extent also in Campania, Venetia and Tuscany, and to a less extent in Lazio (Rome), Apulia, Emilia, the Marches, Umbria, the Abruzzi and Sicily.

To some extent the industry also exists in Emilia, Calabria, Basilicata, the Abruzzi, Sardinia and Sicily.

The jute industry is concentrated in a few large factories, which from 1887 onwards have more than supplied the home market, and have begun considerably to export.

The match-making industry is subject to special fiscal conditions.

The beetroot-sugar industry has attained considerable proportions in Umbria, the Marches, Lazio, Venetia and Piedmont since 1890.

The rise of the industry has been favored by protective tariffs and by a system of excise which allows a considerable premium to manufacturers.