multi-industry

adjective

mul·​ti-in·​dus·​try ˌməl-tē-ˈin-(ˌ)də-strē How to pronounce multi-industry (audio)
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: involving or relating to more than one industry
multi-industry companies
… a multi-industry alignment of forces from digital broadcasting, consumer media computing, video games, and the broadcast Web.Jeff Mace et al.

Examples of multi-industry in a Sentence

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Effective portfolio management is what separates good multi-industry companies from great ones. Jeff Marks, CNBC, 22 July 2024 For now, though, the massive profits from those hydrocarbons are playing a dual role, laying a foundation for a modernized, multi-industry economy while putting MBS closer to the center of the world’s geopolitical web. Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024 In the corporate world, there has been a bizarre multi-industry campaign to either reprimand current employees or refuse to hire people for participating in a protest or signing their names in support of Palestine. Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of multi-industry was in 1921

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“Multi-industry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multi-industry. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.

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