Industry vs Union - What's the difference?
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(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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(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
(uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
(countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
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, title= (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
(countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
(countable) The act or state of marriage.
(uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
(countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time.
A large, high-quality pearl.
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As nouns the difference between industry and union
is that industry is (uncountable) the tendency to work persistently while union is union (action and result).industry
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(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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Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
- Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, andan union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […].