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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.