industry: [15] Industry comes, partly via Old French industrie, from Latin industria, which meant ‘quality of being hard-working, diligence’. This was a derivative of the adjective industrius ‘diligent’, which went back to an Old Latin indostruus, formed from the prefix indu- ‘in’ (see INDIGENOUS) and the element -struus (a relative of the verb struere ‘build’, from which English gets construct, destroy, etc). => construct, destroy, structure
industry (n.)
late 15c., "cleverness, skill," from Old French industrie "activity; aptitude" (14c.) or directly from Latin industria "diligence, activity, zeal," fem. of industrius "industrious, diligent," used as a noun, from early Latin indostruus "diligent," from indu "in, within" + stem of struere "to build" (see structure (n.)). Sense of "diligence, effort" is from 1530s; meaning "trade or manufacture" first recorded 1560s; that of "systematic work" is 1610s.
例文
1. We are becoming one of the market leaders in the fashion industry .
私たちはファッション業界のリーダーの一人になっています。
2.Recession has simply accelerated changes that have been reshaping the industry anyway.
不況は、もともと業界の状況を変えている変化を加速させたにすぎない。
3.Representatives from across the horse industry will attend the meeting.
競馬業界全体の代表が参加する。
4.The drop in travel is bad news for the airline industry .
観光熱の低下は航空業界にとって悪いニュースだ。
5.He passed the letters to the Department of Trade and Industry .