Industry vs Travail - 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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(archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
* Hooker
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*:Travell and pleasure, most unlike in nature, are notwithstanding followed together by a kind of I wot not what natural conjunction.
* 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 38:
Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
(obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
(obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
To toil.
* Latimer
To go through the labor of childbirth.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John XIV:
Industry is a related term of travail.
As nouns the difference between industry and travail
is that industry is (uncountable) the tendency to work persistently while travail is (archaic) arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.As a verb travail is
to toil.industry
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(wikipedia industry)Noun
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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)- As everything of price, so this doth require travail .
- He had thought of making a destiny for himself, through laborious and untiring travail .
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*Verb
(en verb)- slothful persons which will not travail for their livings
- A woman when she traveyleth hath sorowe, be cause her houre is come: but as sone as she is delivered off her chylde she remembreth no moare her anguysshe, for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde.