- industry
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)II(Roget's IV) n.1. [Attention to work]Syn. diligence, activity, assiduity, persistence, application, patience, intentness, perseverance, enterprise, hard work, zeal, energy, dynamism, pains, inventiveness; see also attention 2 , care 1 , diligence .Ant. laziness*, sloth, idleness.2. [Commercial enterprise]Syn. manufacturing, business, commerce, trade, enterprise, production, mass production, assembly-line production; see also business 1 .3. [Business as a division of society]Syn. big business, management, corporation officers, manufacturers, shareholders, high finance, entrepreneurs, capital, private enterprise, monied interests, stockholders.See Synonym Study at business .III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.1. business manufacturing, enterprise, trade, commerce.2. hardwork effort, industriousness, labor, toil, diligence, enterprise, activity.IV(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. Commercial, industrial, or professional activity in general: business, commerce, trade, trading, traffic. See ACTION. 2. Steady attention and effort, as to one's occupation: application, assiduity, assiduousness, diligence, industriousness, sedulousness. See INDUSTRIOUS.
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