industry

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1. industry - Noun

2. Industry - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

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.

Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.

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Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. John Ruskin

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. Nicolas Chamfort

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. Frank Zappa

The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter. Belgian Proverb

Rise early, live soberly, and apply yourself with industry. American Proverb

When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window. Dutch Proverb

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