cottage industry

Noun

Meaning

small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

family business arts and crafts folk art Crafts craftsmen small business arts and trades craft production craft industry trades and crafts art and craft small company small enterprise crafts industry craft businesses
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Antonyms

big business

Hypernyms

industry manufacture

Related terms

preindustrial preindustrialization proto-industrialization

Examples

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business. Derek Bailey

I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses. Stephen King

Overnight I became a cottage industry. Jean Harris

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners. Wilbur Ross

A cottage industry thrives on the inverted logic that masks will encourage reckless behavior. Source: Internet

A cottage industry of companies has sprung up to fill that vacuum. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cottage home cottage hospital cottage industries cottage loaf cottage near a beach cottage on a beach