service industry

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service industry Meaning of "service industry"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects

Usage(s):

  1. The department's Antitrust Division was investigating the online service industry West dominated for alleged monopolistic practices.
  2. The health-care-service industry is growing, and the technologies developed to handle the aging population will be of use to other industrialized nations when their time comes.
  3. While the first African slaves arrived on the island in the 1700s, freed blacks came to work in the service industry after the Civil War, and later they came as entrepreneurs.
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