MeSH

Any enterprise centered on the processing, assembly, production, or marketing of a line of products, services, commodities, or merchandise, in a particular field often named after its principal product. Examples include the automobile, fishing, music, publishing, insurance, and textile industries.

Year introduced: 1973

An INDUSTRY which specializes in the fabrication or manufacture of products from raw or intermediate materials.

Year introduced: 2015

The aggregate business enterprise of building.

Year introduced: 2012

The industry concerned with the removal of raw materials from the Earth's crust and with their conversion into refined products.

Year introduced: 1998

The industry concerned with processing, preparing, preserving, distributing, and serving of foods and beverages.

Year introduced: 1998

The aggregate business enterprise of agriculture, manufacture, and distribution related to tobacco and tobacco-derived products.

Year introduced: 1997

The aggregate business enterprise of manufacturing textiles. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

The science and application of techniques for the extraction of raw materials, provision of services, manufacture of goods, cultivation of crops, and raising of livestock.

Year introduced: 1998

The aggregate enterprise of technically producing packaged meat.

The productive enterprises concerned with food processing.

That segment of commercial enterprise devoted to the design, development, and manufacture of chemical products for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, disability, or other dysfunction, or to improve function.

The aggregate enterprise of manufacturing and technically producing chemicals. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

The aggregate enterprise of manufacturing and technically producing books. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

Enterprise associated with the mining, processing, marketing and distribution of COAL.

Year introduced: 2016

INDUSTRY concerned with the extraction, processing, distribution, marketing and storage of PETROLEUM and NATURAL GAS.

Year introduced: 2015

Economic sector concerned with the provision, distribution, and consumption of health care services and related products.

Year introduced: 1998

The science, art, or technology dealing with processes involved in the separation of metals from their ores, the technique of making or compounding the alloys, the techniques of working or heat-treating metals, and the mining of metals. It includes industrial metallurgy as well as metallurgical techniques employed in the preparation and working of metals used in dentistry, with special reference to orthodontic and prosthodontic appliances. (From Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p494)

Production, storage, and distribution of DAIRY PRODUCTS.

The act or practice of engaging in sexual relations for money or other benefit.