Synonyms for industry

noun

1. Attention to work

   diligence, activity, assiduity, persistence, application, patience, intentness, perseverance, enterprise, hard work, zeal, energy, dynamism, pains, inventiveness; see also attention 2, care 1, diligence.

   Antonyms laziness*, sloth, idleness.

2. Commercial enterprise

   manufacturing, business, commerce, trade, enterprise, production, mass production, assembly-line production; see also business 1.

3. Business as a division of society

   big business, management, corporation officers, manufacturers, shareholders, high finance, entrepreneurs, capital, private enterprise, monied interests, stockholders. See syn. study at business.business.