| cottage industry | small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment |
industry
manufacture | the organized action of making of goods and services for sale, American industry is making increased use of computers to control production |
allowance
leeway
margin tolerance | a permissible difference, allowing some freedom to move within limits |
diligence
industriousness
industry | persevering determination to perform a task, his diligence won him quick promotions, frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues |
| margin | an amount beyond the minimum necessary, the margin of victory |
margin of safety
safety margin
margin of error | the margin required in order to insure safety, in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress |
narrow margin
narrowness slimness | a small margin, the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory, the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just % of the popular vote |
| average cost | total cost for all units bought (or produced) divided by the number of units |
| average | an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual, he is about average in height, the snowfall this month is below average |
average
norm | a statistic describing the location of a distribution, it set the norm for American homes |
| margin | the blank space that surrounds the text on a page, he jotted a note in the margin |
Dow Jones
Dow-Jones Industrial Average | an indicator of stock market prices, based on the share values ofbluehip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing |
margin call
call | a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement |
earned run average
ERA | (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness, calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched |
grade point average
GPA | a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university, calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted |
| industry | the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise, each industry has its own trade publications |
aluminum business
aluminum industry | manufacturers of aluminum considered as a group |
apparel industry
garment industry
fashion industry
fashion business
rag trade | makers and sellers of fashionable clothing |
banking industry
banking system | banks collectively |
| automobile industry | the manufacturers of automobiles considered collectively |
| chemical industry | the manufacturers of chemicals considered collectively |
| coal industry | the producers of coal considered collectively |
| computer industry | the manufacturers of computers considered collectively |
construction industry
housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
| electronics industry | the manufacturers of electronic products considered collectively |
entertainment industry
show business
show biz | those involved in providing entertainment: radio and television and films and theater |
film industry
movie industry | the entertainment industries involved in producing and distributing movies |
| growth industry | an industry that is growing rapidly |
| lighting industry | an industry devoted to manufacturing and selling and installing lighting |
munitions industry
arms industry | an industry that manufacturers weapons of war |
oil industry
refining industry
oil business | an industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products |
| plastics industry | an industry that manufactures plastic articles |
| market securities industry | the securities markets in the aggregate, the market always frustrates the small investor |
| service industry | an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects |
| shipbuilding industry | an industry that builds ships |
| shoe industry | an industry that manufactures and sells shoes |
| sign industry | an industry that produces signs |
| steel industry | the industry that makes steel and steel products |
| sunrise industry | a new industry that is expanding rapidly (especially telecommunications or electronics) |
| tobacco industry | an industry that manufactures and sells products containing tobacco |
toy industry
toy business | an industry that manufactures and sells toys for children |
| trucking industry | an industry that provides transportation for commercial products |
| industry analyst | an analyst of conditions affecting a particular industry |
| oil-industry analyst | an analyst of the oil industry |
gross profit
gross profit margin
margin | (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold |
margin of profit
profit margin
gross margin | the ratio gross profits divided by net sales |
| margin security deposit | the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities |
| margin account | an account with a securities brokerage in which the broker extends credit |
batting average
hitting average | (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance, the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat, Ted Williams once had a batting average above . |
| batting average | (an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds, the salesman's batting average was out of |