commercial industry

collocation in English

meaningsofcommercialandindustry

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commercial
adjective
uk
/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/us
/kəˈmɝː.ʃəl/
related to making money by buying and ...
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industry
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.də.stri/us
/ˈɪn.də.stri/
the companies and activities involved in the process of producing goods for sale, especially in a factory or ...
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(Definition ofcommercialandindustryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But beyond its artistic significance, arrangement was part of acommercialindustry, consolidated through music printing since its invention.
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Volunteers may be wary about becoming involved in 'research' where the agenda is set bycommercialindustry.
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All assembly repairs, other than minor repairs, required to support the programme will be supplied bycommercialindustry.
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That surely is no way for acommercialindustryto operate.
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They would then realise that there is potential in manufacturing industry and alsocommercialindustry.
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Our complaint about them is that they follow the same factory-type formula as one might have expected in an ordinarycommercialindustry.
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I have always wanted the coal industry to be acommercialindustry, commercially viable, paying commercial wages.
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Gas first appeared as acommercialindustryin 1810.
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Recent entrants include two men who have been bankers, three fromcommercialindustry, one from the electronics industry and one from transport.
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However, it is not only acommercialindustry, it is also a cultural industry, as it is enriched by cultural diversity.
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In defence, in common with almost every othercommercialindustry, globalisation is creating fewer but larger suppliers.
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We have nuclear physicists of the highest calibre incommercialindustry.
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All the time in both wars she not only maintained hercommercialindustry, but also advanced her industry in what were formerly other people's markets.
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It happens incommercialindustryin our efforts to export, and it is natural that it should happen in our defence industries as well.
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But rhubarb would be entitled to the special treatment that is being accorded to homegrown fruit, where its preservation is carried out as acommercialindustry.
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This is acommercialindustry; people are not going to stage these things and open cinemas at a cost to themselves unless they are going to make money.
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We are dealing with acommercialindustry.
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They have done something, but they are an organisation animated with an idealism which is foreign, at any rate, to the ordinary run ofcommercialindustry.
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It could be acommercialindustry.
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But unless we grasp that nettle we are putting a burden upon manufacturing andcommercialindustryin this country which will reap for us a poor harvest.
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