manufacturing sector

collocation in English

meaningsofmanufacturingandsector

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manufacturing
noun[U]
uk
/ˌmæn.jəˈfæk.tʃə.rɪŋ/
us
/ˌmæn.jəˈfæk.tʃɚ.ɪŋ/
the business of producing goods in ...
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sector
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsek.tər/
us
/ˈsek.tɚ/
one of the areas into which the economic activity of a country ...
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(Definition ofmanufacturingandsectorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Those areas with a significantmanufacturingsector, for example, other things being equal, will have more jobs that offer occupational pensions opportunities than areas without.
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However, the interaction between users and producers in themanufacturingsector, including medical device manufacturing processes, may not be always as expected (12).
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In themanufacturingsector, the main areas of funding were chemicals, food products, metals, clothing, and textiles and forest products.
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Themanufacturingsectorgrew rapidly but its long-term development was constrained by an inability to compete in international markets.
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Thus taxes on trade, which originally were created to provide revenue, created amanufacturingsectorwhich needed protection to survive and expand.
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I assume that themanufacturingsectorsupplies both investment and consumer goods at the same price.
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For instance, the service sector, which is less energy-intensive, grows relative to themanufacturingsector, resulting in a negative income effect on energy consumption.
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Unfortunately, he reports, in contrast to themanufacturingsector, there is only a slow rate of development of robotics in the supporting academic institutions.
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It follows that political elites in resource-rich countries resist modernisation pressures for as long as possible, especially investment in themanufacturingsector.
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However, the 1991 study helped to establish a high degree of familiarity with themanufacturingsectorand the location of firms.
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Agricultural workers without jobs move to the city where they can be hired in themanufacturingsector.
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It is obvious that the output of themanufacturingsectorfalls, and the output of the rural sector will increase.
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Of course growth outside agriculture, especially in themanufacturingsector, generates other sets of environmental concerns.
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Interestingly, the labor force employed in themanufacturingsectordepends negatively on the productivity-adjusted real wage.
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Strong and sustained growth of manufactured exports is the ultimate indication of the efficiency of an economy'smanufacturingsector.
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The diversified conglomerate oligarchy itself should abandon rent seeking in favour of more production-oriented entrepreneurship, particularly in themanufacturingsector.
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Workers out of jobs move to the city where they can be hired in themanufacturingsector.
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For themanufacturingsector, the change in the pollution is separated into scale and composition effects.
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It also reduces the potential for linking the products from the agricultural and other parts of the primary sector to themanufacturingsector.
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In fact, industrial production indices generally refer to the economic activity of a sample of medium- to large-size enterprises operating in themanufacturingsector.
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