industry

noun6

1. •
   Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
2. •
   a whole area of trade, made up of all the businesses that do the same kind of work

   • The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
   • The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
3. •
   The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.

   • There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
4. •
   Automated production of material goods.

   • It is a classical and restricted view both of industry (it excludes service sectors, now 70% of the GDP of developed economies)[…] — 2007
5. •
   The tendency to work persistently.

   • Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
6. •
   A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.