Meaning of infant industry in English
Examples of infant industry
infant industry
This is a more important objective than foreign exchange saving or infant industry protection.
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This is an infant industry, but if others can get the same results, it will pay handsomely.
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The same can be said of the mechanic's infant industry.
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This is one infant industry that will not cry for a protective tariff.
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It seems to typify the atmosphere of wealth and leisure into which the infant industry was brought without adequate study of the problems it would be called upon to surmount.
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It is going to be a real infant industry all by its lonesome; and already it is a pretty husky infant, with a loud honk-honk instead of a teething cry.
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Another argument is that "infant industries" under protection never come to maturity.
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Protection may be defended as encouraging infant industries and thus diversifying the industries of the country.
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Since 1897 the "infant industries" have grown, and some have in recent years declared dividends of 66 per cent per annum.
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The trusts do not belong to the period of infant industries.
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In every way possible they tried to upbuild its infant industries.
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The "infant industries," which those statesmen desired to encourage, have grown up and grown gray, but they have always had new arguments for special favors.
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Should taxes be devised, or continued, to protect such infant industries as now handle our kerosene oil, meat, sugar and steel?
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The professional politicians who have been harping upon this string since infant industries have become giant monopolies know better.
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In an era when the state's ability to tax was limited, tariffs were the primary means of infant industry protection.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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