Noun
heavy industry (uncountable)
Industrial processes that are very complex or involve large and heavy equipment, facilities, or end products.
First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry. Ibrahim Rugova
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on. Warren Bennis
Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days. James Buchan
Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles. Paul Volcker
A large-scale ore scrubber jointly manufactured and processed by Production Division 1, Production Division 3 and the Equipment Manufacturing Division of Daming Heavy Industry was successfully exported to Mclanahan in Australia. Source: Internet
Heavy industry and quarrying is limited, with agriculture predominating after service industries. Source: Internet