Industry vs Production - What's the difference?
industry | production |
(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.
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, title= (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole.
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, title= (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
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, title= (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
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The act of producing, making or creating something.
The act of bringing something forward, out etc. for use or consideration.
* 1910 , , "The Lost Sanjak", Reginald in Russia :
the act of being produced
the total amount produced
the presentation of a theatrical work
an occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary
that which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model)
The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
As nouns the difference between industry and production
is that industry is (uncountable) the tendency to work persistently while production is the act of producing, making or creating something.industry
English
(wikipedia industry)Noun
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.}}
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.}}
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.}}
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.}}
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Synonyms
* (tendency to work persistently) diligence; application * (businesses of the same type) sector; field * (businesses that produce goods) manufacturingDerived terms
* automotive industry * captain of industry * cottage industry * film industry * finance industry * food services industry * health care industry * heavy industry * light industry * primary industry * secondary industry * smokestack industry * software industry * tertiary industry * video game industryReferences
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The widget making machine is being used for production now.
- I tramped to a neighbouring market-town, and, late as the hour was, the production of a few shillings procured me supper and a night's lodging in a cheap coffee-house.
- The widgets are coming out of production now.
- They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.
- We went to a production of Hamlet.
- He made a simple meal into a huge production .
- This is the final production model.