noun (n)

• the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise(noun.group)

  Example:
  Each industry has its own trade publications.
  

  source: wordnet30
• the organized action of making of goods and services for sale(noun.act)

  Example:
  American industry is making increased use of computers to control production.
  

  Synonym:
  manufacture
  

  source: wordnet30
• persevering determination to perform a task(noun.attribute)

  Example:
  Frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues.
  

  Synonym:
  diligence, industriousness
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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.(noun)

  source: webster1913