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Manufacturing vs. Industry

Manufacturing and Industry Definitions

Manufacturing

To make or process (a raw material) into a finished product, especially by means of a large-scale industrial operation.

Industry

The sector of an economy made up of manufacturing enterprises
Government regulation of industry.

Manufacturing

To make or process (a product), especially with the use of industrial machines.

Industry

A sector of an economy
The advertising industry.

Manufacturing

To create, produce, or turn out in a mechanical manner
"His books seem to have been manufactured rather than composed" (Dwight Macdonald).

Industry

Energetic devotion to a task or an endeavor; diligence
Demonstrated great intelligence and industry as a prosecutor.
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Manufacturing

To concoct or invent; fabricate
Manufacture an excuse.

Industry

Ongoing work or study associated with a specified subject or figure
The Civil War industry.
The Hemingway industry.

Manufacturing

To make or process goods, especially in large quantities and by means of industrial machines.

Industry

A collection of artifacts or tools made from a specified material
A Mesolithic bone industry.

Manufacturing

The act, craft, or process of manufacturing products, especially on a large scale.

Industry

A standardized tradition of toolmaking associated with a specified tool or culture
A stone hand-axe industry.
The Acheulian industry.
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Manufacturing

An industry in which mechanical power and machinery are employed.

Industry

(Obsolete) Cleverness or skill.

Manufacturing

A product that is manufactured.

Industry

(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.
Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.

Manufacturing

The making or producing of something.

Industry

Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
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Manufacturing

The transformation of raw materials into finished products, usually on a large scale.

Industry

Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

Manufacturing

The industry in which such products are made.

Industry

The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.

Manufacturing

Used in manufacturing.

Industry

Automated production of material goods.

Manufacturing

Present participle of manufacture

Industry

(archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.

Manufacturing

Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture; as, a manufacturing community; a manufacturing town.

Industry

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.
We are more industrious than our forefathers, because in the present times the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater in proportion to those which are likely to be employed in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago.

Manufacturing

Pertaining to manufacture; as, manufacturing projects.

Industry

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.

Industry

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

Industry

The people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise;
Each industry has its own trade publications

Industry

The organized action of making of goods and services for sale;
American industry is making increased use of computers to control production

Industry

Persevering determination to perform a task;
His diligence won him quick promotions
Frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues

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