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How to spell industry

Industry is spelled I-N-D-U-S-T-R-Y. IN, then DUS, then TRY: the R sits between the T and the Y.

What it means: The organized production of goods and services.

In a sentence: The candy industry makes lots of yummy treats! ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: industrial, industrialize, industrialization, industrialist, industrious. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Industry comes from the Latin word 'industria,' which meant diligence or energetic effort. Over time, the meaning shifted from personal hard work to large-scale economic activity like factories and business sectors.

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