dying industry

collocation in English

meaningsofdyingandindustry

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dying
adjective
uk
/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/
very ill and likely to ...
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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 ofdyingandindustryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We need support not for adyingindustrybut for one which is being stifled.
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I make it clear that it is not a question of propping up adyingindustry.
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It is not adyingindustry, but it is an industry that needs to be reconstructed and put upon a new basis.
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But it is very important that people should realise that coal mining is not adyingindustry.
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Both farmers and farm workers were gradually leaving what many regarded as adyingindustry.
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There is what is described by those who best know it, as adyingindustry—the herring industry.
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But do we regard the aircraft industry as adyingindustry?
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He said it is because they look upon it as adyingindustry.
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It is all very well to say that sea travel is adyingindustry.
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In other words, the subsidy was to be used as oxygen to bring new life and strength to adyingindustry.
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This is no special pleading for an obsolescent anddyingindustry.
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I am told it is adyingindustry; yet landowners put up the rents and sell the land on the basis of the high rents.
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One felt that it was adyingindustryand that something had gone drastically wrong.
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People talk of this being adyingindustry.
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This assistance is not being given to adyingindustry.
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It is entirely wrong for the textile industry to be thought of or described as adyingindustry.
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After all, shipbuilding is not adyingindustry.
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There is a huge problem with the public attitude that engineering and manufacturing is adyingindustry.
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The gas industry is not adyingindustry.
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However, it is far from being adyingindustry.
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