multi-industry

adjective

mul·ti-in·dus·try ˌməl-tē-ˈin-(ˌ)də-strē

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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

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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 25 Nov. 2024.

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