Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Energetic in application to work or study. synonym: diligent.
- adjective Obsolete Skillful; clever.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to industry; acting or working with diligence; sedulous: as, a person industrious in business.
- Marked by industry; done with or characterized by diligence; busily pursued, performed, or employed: as, an industrious life; industrious researches.
- Expert; clever; shrewd.
- Synonyms Industrious, Industrial; busy, laborious, active, hard-working, sedulous. Industrious, having the activity or the moral quality of industry; industrial, connected with the application of industry to manufactures: as, the industrious ant; industrial statistics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given to industry; characterized by diligence; constantly, regularly, or habitually occupied; busy; assiduous; not slothful or idle; -- commonly implying devotion to lawful and useful labor.
- adjective Steadily and perseveringly active in a particular pursuit or aim
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Hard-working and persistent;
worksome .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective working hard to promote an enterprise
- adjective characterized by hard work and perseverance
Etymologies
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Examples
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She had also heard herself called industrious, capable and more than ordinarily clever, and she acquiesced with that opinion also.
Humble Pie 1904
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Thus industrious is he to give honour to him, and to bring others to do so too.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Its completion will signal the end of a two-hundred-year commercial saga characterized by industrious thinking, entrepreneurial markets, and mass labor workforces and the beginning of a new era marked by collaborative behavior, social networks and boutique professional and technical workforces.
Jeremy Rifkin: The Third Industrial Revolution: Toward A New Economic Paradigm (EXCERPT) Jeremy Rifkin 2011
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Its completion will signal the end of a two-hundred-year commercial saga characterized by industrious thinking, entrepreneurial markets, and mass labor workforces and the beginning of a new era marked by collaborative behavior, social networks and boutique professional and technical workforces.
Jeremy Rifkin: The Third Industrial Revolution: Toward A New Economic Paradigm (EXCERPT) Jeremy Rifkin 2011
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Its completion will signal the end of a two-hundred-year commercial saga characterized by industrious thinking, entrepreneurial markets, and mass labor workforces and the beginning of a new era marked by collaborative behavior, social networks and boutique professional and technical workforces.
Jeremy Rifkin: The Third Industrial Revolution: Toward A New Economic Paradigm (EXCERPT) Jeremy Rifkin 2011
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Its completion will signal the end of a two-hundred-year commercial saga characterized by industrious thinking, entrepreneurial markets, and mass labor workforces and the beginning of a new era marked by collaborative behavior, social networks and boutique professional and technical workforces.
Jeremy Rifkin: The Third Industrial Revolution: Toward A New Economic Paradigm (EXCERPT) Jeremy Rifkin 2011
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Its completion will signal the end of a two-hundred-year commercial saga characterized by industrious thinking, entrepreneurial markets, and mass labor workforces and the beginning of a new era marked by collaborative behavior, social networks and boutique professional and technical workforces.
Jeremy Rifkin: The Third Industrial Revolution: Toward A New Economic Paradigm (EXCERPT) Jeremy Rifkin 2011
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Its completion will signal the end of a two-hundred-year commercial saga characterized by industrious thinking, entrepreneurial markets, and mass labor workforces and the beginning of a new era marked by collaborative behavior, social networks and boutique professional and technical workforces.
Jeremy Rifkin: The Third Industrial Revolution: Toward A New Economic Paradigm (EXCERPT) Jeremy Rifkin 2011
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Its completion will signal the end of a two-hundred-year commercial saga characterized by industrious thinking, entrepreneurial markets, and mass labor workforces and the beginning of a new era marked by collaborative behavior, social networks and boutique professional and technical workforces.
Jeremy Rifkin: The Third Industrial Revolution: Toward A New Economic Paradigm (EXCERPT) Jeremy Rifkin 2011
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Its completion will signal the end of a two-hundred-year commercial saga characterized by industrious thinking, entrepreneurial markets, and mass labor workforces and the beginning of a new era marked by collaborative behavior, social networks and boutique professional and technical workforces.
Jeremy Rifkin: The Third Industrial Revolution: Toward A New Economic Paradigm (EXCERPT) Jeremy Rifkin 2011
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