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  2. Industry - Wikipedia

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    The wider industrial sector of an economy, including manufacturing and production of other intermediate or final goods; The general characteristics and production methods common to an industrial society. Industrialization, the transformation into an industrial society; Industry classification, a classification of economic organizations and ...

  3. Jargon - Wikipedia

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    Jargon, also referred to as "technical language", is "the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group". [8] Most jargon is technical terminology (technical terms), involving terms of art [9] or industry terms, with particular meaning within a specific industry.

  4. Industry (economics) - Wikipedia

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    One distinct industry (for example, barrelmaking) may become limited to a tiny niche market and get mostly re-classified into another industry using new techniques. At the same time, entirely new industries may branch off from older ones once a significant market becomes apparent (as an example, the semiconductor industry has become ...

  5. Category:Industries (economics) - Wikipedia

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    It should only contain pages that are industries (branches of an economy) or lists of industries, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about industries in general should be placed in Category:Industry (economics) or one of its subcategories.

  6. Energy industry - Wikipedia

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    The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution. Modern society consumes large amounts of fuel, and the energy industry is a crucial part of the infrastructure and maintenance of society in almost all countries .

  7. Glossary of oilfield jargon - Wikipedia

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    Oilfield terminology refers to the jargon used by those working in fields within and related to the upstream segment of the petroleum industry. It includes words and phrases describing professions, equipment, and procedures specific to the industry. It may also include slang terms used by oilfield workers to describe the same.

  8. The 10 Industries That Have Been Impacted the Most by ... - AOL

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    The airline industry took a sizable hit to the tune of $35 billion in 2020, according to CNBC. American Airlines’ stock dropped 45% in 2020, while Delta lost 31% and United plummeted 51%.

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...