| green |
of a company or industry, producing energy-efficient or recyclable products and producing them in a way that conserves energy generated from fossil fuels while contributing little to environmental pollution. [1/17 definitions] |
| high-tech |
a style of design, esp. interior design, or a type of material that suggests modern industry by being metallic or plastic, having simple utilitarian lines, or the like. [1/3 definitions] |
| Hollywood |
a section of Los Angeles that is often considered to be the center of the U.S. film industry or to represent the industry's values, lifestyle, or the like. |
| industrial |
of or pertaining to the production of goods and services by industry. [2/5 definitions] |
| industrialism |
economic or social organization based on mechanized industry. |
| industrialize |
to introduce industry into (a country, region, or the like); make industrial. [1/2 definitions] |
| industrial park |
a tract of land provided with the public utilities, zoning regulations, and the like required by, and designed to attract, industry. |
| industrial union |
a labor union that represents the workers in an entire industry rather than only those engaged in one craft or a related group of crafts. |
| interindustry |
combined form of industry. |
| meatpacking |
the process or industry of slaughtering animals, and processing and packaging the meat for market. |
| mechanize |
to introduce the use of machinery into (an industry, work force, or the like). [1/3 definitions] |
| monopolize |
in business, to dominate or set out to dominate (an industry); maintain or acquire a monopoly over. [1/2 definitions] |
| movie |
(pl.) motion pictures collectively, or the motion picture industry (usu. prec. by "the"). [1/3 definitions] |
| multi-industry |
combined form of industry. |
| nonindustry |
combined form of industry. |
| operative |
one who is employed in a particular kind of work, esp. in industry. [1/6 definitions] |
| pisciculture |
the breeding, hatching, and rearing of fish as a science or industry; fish farming. |
| pork barrel |
(informal) a government bill or appropriation specifically designed to benefit a particular locale or industry in order to ingratiate legislators with their constituents. |
| postindustrial |
of or designating a society in which the importance of heavy industry is declining, relative to that of technology and service industries. |
| privatization |
the conversion of an industry, business, or the like from government ownership or control to ownership or control by the private sector. |
| protect |
in economics, to guard the secure growth of (an industry) by means of tariffs on competing goods from other countries. [1/3 definitions] |