Synonyms for industry
Most common
diligence application industriousness attention sector field work
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Diligence — the tendency to work persistently
diligence, application, industriousness, attention, work ethic, painstaking, perseverance, patience, persistence, constancy, assiduity, sedulousness rare, assiduousness rare, hardworkingness rare
3. Business
business informal, work, labor US, labour UK, manufacture, activity, effort, toil, pains, exertion
Other
laboriousness rare
Definitions
- n. 1
The tendency to work persistently.
Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
- n. 2
Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
- n. 3
Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
Related words
- Word family
- industrial industrious
- Phrases
- captain of industry cottage industry film industry hive of industry knight of industry
Forms
- Plural
- industries → diligences, applications, attentions, painstakings…
Choose the right word
In the use of the nouns, we speak of plodding industry, but not of plodding diligence.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- manufacture The plants manufacture complex chemical compounds.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| industry | falling | |
| assiduity | falling | |
| manufacture | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- work1, toil1
- 5 letters
- field1, labor2, pains1
- 6 letters
- effort2, sector2, labour2
- 8 letters
- business2, activity4, patience2, exertion3
- 9 letters
- attention3, diligence3, constancy3, assiduity
- 11 letters
- application4, manufacture4, persistence3, painstaking3
- 12 letters
- perseverance4, sedulousness
- 13 letters
- assiduousness, laboriousness
- 15 letters
- industriousness, hardworkingness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (labor2 = 2 syllables).