industries
- 1Plural of industry.
The steel and shipping industries both suffered during the recession.
Emerging industries often attract heavy investment before they turn a profit.
Note
A plural that only some meanings of industry can take. The sense of diligence, a tendency to work persistently, is uncountable, so you can praise someone's industry but never their industries. The plural belongs to trades and sectors, as in the steel and textile industries. Archaeologists use it too: stone-tool industries are typological classes, each associated with a larger technocomplex.
industries is a form of industry
industry, noun: The businesses of the same type, considered together as a single whole; trade in a given line of work. Full entry
- Forms
- industryindustries plural
- Spelling
- industry → industries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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