Synonyms for Industry
ˈɪn də striin·dus·t·ry

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. industrynoun

   The tendency to work persistently.

   Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.

   Synonyms:
   application, diligence

2. industrynoun

   Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole.

   Synonyms:
   sector, field

3. industrynoun

   Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

   There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.

   Synonyms:
   manufacturing

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. industry

   Industry is the quality, action, or habit of earnest, steady, and continued attention or devotion to any useful or productive work or task, manual or mental. Assiduity (Latin ad, to, and sedeo, sit), as the etymology suggests, sits down to a task until it is done. Diligence (Latin diligo, love, choose) invests more effort and exertion, with love of the work or deep interest in its accomplishment; application (Latin ad, to, and plico, fold) bends to its work and concentrates all one's powers upon it with utmost intensity; hence, application can hardly be as unremitting as assiduity. Constancy is a steady devotion of heart and principle. Patience works on in spite of annoyances; perseverance overcomes hindrances and difficulties; persistence strives relentlessly against opposition; persistence has very frequently an unfavorable meaning, implying that one persists in spite of considerations that should induce him to desist. Industry is diligence applied to some avocation, business, or profession. Labor and pains refer to the exertions of the worker and the tax upon him, while assiduity, perseverance, etc., refer to his continuance in the work.

   Synonyms:
   application, assiduity, attention, constancy, diligence, effort, exertion, intentness, labor, pains, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulousness

   Antonyms:
   changeableness, fickleness, idleness, inattention, inconstancy, indolence, neglect, negligence, remissness, sloth

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. industry

   Synonyms:
   activity, toil, assiduity, diligence, perseverance

   Antonyms:
   inactivity, ease, indiligence, indolence

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. industrynoun

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

   "each industry has its own trade publications"

   Synonyms:
   industriousness, diligence, manufacture

2. industry, manufacturenoun

   the organized action of making of goods and services for sale

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

   Synonyms:
   industriousness, diligence, manufacture, fabrication, industry, manufacturing

3. diligence, industriousness, industrynoun

   persevering determination to perform a task

   "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues"

   Synonyms:
   industriousness, diligence, manufacture, industry, application

Matched Categories

1. • Commercial Enterprise
   • Determination
   • Industry

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. industrynoun

   Synonyms:
   assiduity, assiduousness, sedulousness, perseverance, activity, DILIGENCE, habitual devotion to labor

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1. industrynoun

   Synonyms:
   assiduity, diligence, activity, labor, work, exertion, efforts

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "industry":

   industrial, industries, sector, 'industrie, industria, industrie, yip, 'industria, manufacturing, business, industri, sectors, area, trade, profession, maker, branch

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1. Tobias Caspary:

   The merger would have resulted in a 4 to 3 (major industry players) scenario that often attracts substantial scrutiny by the EC (Commission). Interestingly, TNT's subsequent acquisition by FedEx was cleared unconditionally. Comparing these two scenarios offers an interesting insight into which cases fall across the prohibition line and which don't.

2. Tony Headrick:

   The negative aspect is overall crude builds, which counter industry figures from yesterday that showed a drop, in the midst of refinery utilization rising.

3. Delphine Denis:

   With fewer cars in use, the industry has more capacity to retrofit existing cars to the current standard.

4. Diane Hoskins:

   Today's announcement is a major step backward in offshore drilling safety. Our government shouldn't be catering to the demands of the oil industry at the expense of our public and environmental safety, more drilling and less safety is a recipe for disaster.

5. Attorney Andrew Stoltmann:

   It simply isn't believable that she will now aggressively seek to regulate the securities industry should she become president.