Noun

(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 12, work=BBC Sport

, title= International friendly: England 1-0 Spain , passage=England's win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield.}}

(countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}

(uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)

, title= Internal Combustion, chapter=2 , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries .  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}

(in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}

Automated production of material goods{{cite web

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Noun

(en noun)

A controlled behaviour; self-control.

* Rogers

The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline , are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.

An enforced compliance or control.

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A systematic method of obtaining obedience.

* C. J. Smith

Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.

A state of order based on submission to authority.

* Dryden

Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art.

A punishment to train or maintain control.

* Addison

giving her the discipline of the strap

A set of rules regulating behaviour.

A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.

A specific branch of knowledge or learning.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline : too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}

(Bishop Wilkins)

A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.