Industry

in′dus-tri, n. quality of being diligent: a iduity: steady application to labour: habitual diligence: manufacture: trade.— adj. Indus′trial , relating to or consisting in industry.— n. Indus′trialism , devotion to labour or industrial pursuits: that system or condition of society in which industrial labour is the chief and most characteristic feature, opposed to feudalism and the military spirit.— adv. Indus′trially .— adj. Indus′trio us , diligent or active in one's labour: laborious: diligent in a particular pursuit.— adv. Indus′triously .— Industrial exhibition , museum , an exhibition, museum, of industrial products or manufactures; Industrial school , a school in which agricultural or some other industrial art is taught: a school where neglected children are taught mechanical arts. [Fr.,—L.; perh. from in do , old form of in , within, and struĕre , to build up.]