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English word industry comes from Latin indostruus, and later Latin industrius (Active, industrious, assiduous, diligent.)
indostruus (Latin)
industrius (Latin)
Active, industrious, assiduous, diligent.
industria (Latin)
Diligence, purpose. Industry.
industrie (Old French)
industry (English)
(European, _, software, _, patent law) Automated production of material goods. (archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.. (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.. (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.. (uncountable) The tendency to work [...]