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noun. The sector of an economy made up of manufacturing enterprises.

noun. A sector of an economy: synonym: business.

noun. Energetic devotion to a task or an endeavor; diligence.

noun. Ongoing work or study associated with a specified subject or figure.

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noun. A collection of artifacts or tools made from a specified material.

noun. A standardized tradition of toolmaking associated with a specified tool or culture.

noun. Cleverness or skill.

noun. Habitual diligence in any employment or task, whether bodily or mental; sedulous attention to business; assiduity.

noun. Productive labor; specifically, labor employed in manufacturing; manufacture; hence, a particular branch of work; a trade: as, the iron industry; the cotton industry: often used, in the plural, of trades in general: as, the arts and industries of a country.

noun. Synonyms Application, Diligence, etc. (see assiduity); activity, laboriousness.

noun. Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness.

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

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

noun. The tendency to work persistently.

noun. Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole.

noun. Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

noun. The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.

noun. persevering determination to perform a task

noun. the organized action of making of goods and services for sale

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

"They all sink into the lowest class of religions mendicants, or retainers; or live among their friends as drones upon the land; while the manufacturing, trading, and commercial industry that provided them with the comforts, conveniences, and elegancies of life while they were in a higher grade of service is in its turn thrown out of employment; and the whole frame of society becomes, for a time, deranged by the local diminution in the demand _for the services of men and the produce of their industry_."