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# industry

«industry» in Mova's school dictionary: **The work of making goods in factories: heavy industry** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (industry — uncountable; an industry, industries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The work of making goods in factories: heavy industry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industry/#m1)

2) An industry is all the businesses that make or do one kind of thing: the car industry, the tourist industry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industry/#m2)

3) (formal) Hard work: a person of great industry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industry/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history (the Industrial Revolution), geography (primary, secondary, tertiary industry) and everyday life (jobs). Phrases: the film industry, heavy industry, light industry, the Industrial Revolution.

### examples

- The car industry employs thousands of people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industry/#x1)
- Tourism is a big industry in Ireland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industry/#x2)
- The Industrial Revolution started in Britain in the 1700s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industry/#x3)
- Many towns grew up around coal and steel industry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industry/#x4)
- The bees work with great industry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industry/#x5)
- My aunt works in the music industry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industry/#x6)
- So he praised the prince for his industry and cleverness, and made him his steward at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industry/#x7)

### note

Plural industries. Adjective industrial (factories); industrious means hard-working. Say IN-dus-tree, stress on the first syllable.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «industry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.