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industry - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | industry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manufacturing |
| Synonyms: | business, commerce, corporation, management, mob, monopoly, multinational, outfit*, production, trade, traffic, big business, commercial enterprise, manufactory, megacorp |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | industry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
| Synonyms: | activity, application, attention, care, determination, diligence, effort, energy, enterprise, labor, patience, perseverance, persistence, toil, vigor, zeal, assiduity, dynamism, intentness, inventiveness, pains, tirelessness |
| Antonyms: | idleness, indolence, laziness, lethargy, worthlessness, unemployment |
| Main Entry: | commerce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | business, dealings, economics, exchange, industry, marketing, trade, traffic, truck, dealing, merchandising, merchantry, retailing, wholesaling |
| Main Entry: | diligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perseverance in carrying out action |
| Synonyms: | activity, alertness, application, attention, care, constancy, earnestness, exertion, heed, industry, intensity, intent, keenness, quickness, vigor, assiduity, assiduousness, attentiveness, briskness, carefulness, heedfulness, intentness, laboriousness, pertinacity, sedulousness |
| Antonyms: | indifference, laziness, lethargy, neglect, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | effort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | work, exertion |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, act, aim, application, aspiration, attempt, battle, crack*, creation, deed, discipline, drill, elbow grease*, endeavor, energy, enterprise, essay, exercise, feat, fling*, force, go*, industry, intention, job, labor, old college try*, power, product, production, pull, purpose, push, resolution, shot*, spurt, stab*, strain, stress, stretch, strife, striving, struggle, sweat, tension, toil, training, travail, trial, trouble, try, tug*, undertaking, venture, whack*, pains |
| Antonyms: | hesitation, idleness, laziness, inactivity, passivity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, application, attempt, effort, elbow grease*, employment, endeavor, exercise, industry, labor, operation, strain, stretch, striving, struggle, toil, travail, trial, trouble, use, hard pull, long pull, pains, utilization |
| Antonyms: | idleness, laziness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | factory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manufacturing plant |
| Synonyms: | branch, cooperative, firm, forge, foundry, industry, laboratory, mill, mint, shop, warehouse, works, workshop, machine shop, manufactory, salt mines, sweatshop, workroom |
| Main Entry: | gumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nerve, initiative |
| Synonyms: | ability, acumen, astuteness, cleverness, discernment, enterprise, horse sense*, industry, judgment, perspicacity, sagacity, savvy, sense, shrewdness, spirit, wisdom, wit, commonsense, get-up-and-go, good sense, perspicaciousness, resourcefulness, sagaciousness |
| Antonyms: | cowardice, naivety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | toil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
| Synonyms: | application, drudgery, effort, exertion, industry, labor, occupation, sweat, travail, moil, nine-to-five, pains |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun, pastime |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
| Synonyms: | activity, agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, bag*, bit*, business, bustle, commotion, dash, deal, energy, enterprise, flurry, force, game, happening, haste, hoopla*, industry, life, liveliness, motion, movement, occupation, operation, plan, power, process, proposition, racket*, reaction, response, rush, scene, spirit, stir, stunt, trip, turmoil, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, ballgame, big idea, functioning, going, hopper, in the works |
| Antonyms: | cessation, idleness, inaction, inertia, repose, rest, stoppage, inactivity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | attention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concentration |
| Synonyms: | absorption, application, consideration, contemplation, debate, deliberation, diligence, heed, industry, mind, scrutiny, study, thinking, thought, thoughtfulness, assiduity, engrossment, heedfulness, immersion, intentness |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignorance, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | work, undertaking |
| Synonyms: | activity, chore, daily grind, diligence, drudgery, effort, employment, endeavor, energy, exercise, exertion, grind*, industry, job, moonlight, operation, pull, push, strain, stress, struggle, sweat, toil, travail, gruntwork, pains |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, clientele, commerce, contract, custom, deal, enterprise, exchange, industry, interchange, market, patronage, public, swap, traffic, transaction, truck, customers, dealing, merchantry, sales |
| Main Entry: | work |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | labor, chore |
| Synonyms: | assignment, attempt, commission, daily grind, drudge, drudgery, effort, elbow grease*, endeavor, exertion, grind, industry, job, muscle, obligation, performance, production, push, servitude, stint, stress, striving, struggle, sweat*, task, toil, travail, trial, trouble, undertaking, functioning, grindstone, moil, pains, salt mines, slogging |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun, pastime |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enterprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resourcefulness, energy |
| Synonyms: | activity, alertness, ambition, audacity, boldness, courage, daring, dash, drive, eagerness, enthusiasm, force, foresight, gumption, hustle, industry, initiative, pluck, push, readiness, resource, spirit, vigor, zeal, adventurousness, get-up-and-go, inventiveness, self-reliance, venturesomeness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, idleness, indolence, passiveness, passivity |
| Main Entry: | organization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group bound by interest/work/ goal |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, aggregation, alliance, association, band, body, business, cartel, circle, clique, club, coalition, combination, combine, company, concern, concord, cooperative, corporation, coterie, crew, establishment, federation, fraternity, guild, house, industry, institute, institution, league, lodge, machine, monopoly, order, outfit, party, profession, set, society, sodality, sorority, squad, syndicate, team, trade, troupe, trust, union, confederation, consortium |
| Main Entry: | traffic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, closeness, commerce, communication, communion, connection, custom, dealings*, doings*, exchange, familiarity, industry, interchange, intercourse, intimacy, patronage, relationship, soliciting, trade, truck*, dealing, merchantry, peddling, relations, transactions |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | work |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business, occupation |
| Synonyms: | activity, art, calling, commitment, contract, craft, do*, duty, employment, endeavor, gig*, grind*, industry, job, line, livelihood, métier, obligation, office, practice, profession, pursuit, racket*, responsibility, skill, slot*, stint, swindle, task, thing*, trade, vocation, walk, line of business, nine-to-five, specialization |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun, pastime |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | application |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
| Synonyms: | attention, commitment, concentration, consideration, dedication, deliberation, diligence, effort, industry, perseverance, study, zeal, assiduity, attentiveness, busyness |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commerce, trade |
| Synonyms: | bargaining, barter, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industry, manufacturing, market, racket*, selling, traffic, transaction, undertaking, affairs, buying and selling, capital and labor, commercialism, contracts, industrialism, merchandising, production and distribution, sales, trading |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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