smokestack industry
noun [C] mainly USDefinition
› a traditional industry that produces large machines or materials used in other industries and creates pollution in doing so: There's been a steady decline in smokestack industries such as shipbuilding and steel.Industry and industrial processes
(Definition of smokestack industry noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- manufacture noun
- manufacture verb (PRODUCE)
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