industry

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. labor, work; occupation, trade, business, activity; diligence.

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.