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1.NounThe tendency to work persistently."Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy."
2.NounBusinesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade."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.NounBusinesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
4.NounThe 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."
5.NounAutomated production of material goods.
6.NounA typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.