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