Industry vs. Commerce — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Industry and Commerce
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Industry
Economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories
New investment incentives for British industry
Commerce
Commerce is the exchange of goods and services, especially on a large scale.
Industry
Hard work
The kitchen became a hive of industry
Commerce
The buying and selling of goods, especially on a large scale, as between cities or nations.
Industry
The sector of an economy made up of manufacturing enterprises
Government regulation of industry.
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Commerce
Intellectual exchange or social interaction.
Industry
A sector of an economy
The advertising industry.
Commerce
Sexual intercourse.
Industry
Energetic devotion to a task or an endeavor; diligence
Demonstrated great intelligence and industry as a prosecutor.
Commerce
(business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
Industry
Ongoing work or study associated with a specified subject or figure
The Civil War industry.
The Hemingway industry.
Commerce
Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
Industry
A collection of artifacts or tools made from a specified material
A Mesolithic bone industry.
Commerce
(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
Industry
A standardized tradition of toolmaking associated with a specified tool or culture
A stone hand-axe industry.
The Acheulian industry.
Commerce
An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
Industry
(Obsolete) Cleverness or skill.
Commerce
To carry on trade; to traffic.
Industry
(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.
Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
Commerce
To hold conversation; to communicate.
Industry
Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
Commerce
The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men.
Industry
Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
Commerce
Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
Industry
The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
Commerce
Sexual intercourse.
Industry
Automated production of material goods.
Commerce
A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
Industry
(archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
Commerce
To carry on trade; to traffic.
Beware you commerce not with bankrupts.
Industry
Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; - opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.
We are more industrious than our forefathers, because in the present times the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater in proportion to those which are likely to be employed in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago.
Commerce
To hold intercourse; to commune.
Commercing with himself.
Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.
Industry
Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.
Commerce
Transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
Industry
Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.
Commerce
The United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913
Industry
The people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise;
Each industry has its own trade publications
Commerce
Social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.
Industry
The organized action of making of goods and services for sale;
American industry is making increased use of computers to control production
Industry
Persevering determination to perform a task;
His diligence won him quick promotions
Frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues
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