<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>industries</li><li>the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.</li><li>any general business activity; commercial enterprise: the Italian tourist industry.</li><li>trade or manufacture in general: the rise of industry in Africa.</li><li>the ownership and management of companies, factories, etc.: friction between labor and industry.</li><li>systematic work or labor.</li><li>energetic, devoted activity at any work or task; diligence: Her teacher praised her industry.</li><li>Synonyms:<ul><li>industriousness,</li><li>assiduity,</li><li>effort,</li><li>application.</li></ul></li><li>the aggregate of work, scholarship, and ancillary activity in a particular field, often named after its principal subject: the Mozart industry.</li><li>Archaeology. an assemblage of artifacts regarded as unmistakably the work of a single prehistoric group.</li></ul>