industry

industry is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.
4. noun. the organized action of making of goods and services for sale

   "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"

   Synonyms: manufacture

5. noun. persevering determination to perform a task

   "his diligence won him quick promotions"

   "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues"

   Synonyms: diligence, industriousness

6. noun. the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise

   "each industry has its own trade publications"

Synonyms

manufacture, diligence, industriousness

Common word forms

industrys, industries

Words from these letters

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