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词汇 smokestack-industry
释义 smokestack industry
noun[ C ]
mainly USuk /ˈsməʊk.stæk ˌɪn.də.stri/ us /ˈsmoʊk.stæk ˌɪn.də.stri/
a traditional industry that produces large machines or materials used in other industries and creates pollution in doing so: 烟囱工业,(传统的污染严重的)重工业
There's been a steady decline in smokestack industries such as shipbuilding and steel.造船和钢铁等重污染工业正在稳步减少。
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smokestack industry | Business English


smokestack industry
noun[ C ]
ukus
PRODUCTION, NATURAL RESOURCES
an industry involved in making things using processes that burn a lot of coal or oil and produce a lot of pollution:
Unlike old smokestack industries that stagnated in the 1970s and 1980s, the tech field is strong and diverse.
The transition from the smokestack industries of the past has been painful, but necessary.

Examples of smokestack industry


smokestack industry
That fight was not a fight for a smokestackindustry.
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This is not a smokestackindustry to be decently buried; it is not a lame duck industry producing an unwanted product at an unacceptable price.
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The shipping industry is emphatically not a smokestackindustry that is simply looking for handouts.
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It is not a smokestackindustry that has been gradually run down.
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We need a new maritime policy which should recognised that shipbuilding is not a smokestackindustry or a thing of the past.
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So is the fact that local air and water quality tends to improve with the expansion of the service sector and the relocation of smokestack industries.
But this increase in scale brought coal mining into the same economic sphere as the other smokestack industries of the time, including the railroads and iron manufacturing.
We were often told that changes were inevitable as old outdated smokestack industries declined.
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I said that our labour-intensive, smokestack industries had been replaced by modern industry.
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It is no longer viable for smokestack industries to operate under outdated practices.
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Work used to be in the old smokestack industries, which were not conducive to women.
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The north-west has a proud record in new industries and new technologies, but too often it is linked with the smokestack industries of the past.
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They always look back to the old smokestack industries.
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Some people talk about some of our older established industries almost with contempt, calling them the smokestack industries.
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It is not an answer simply to say that it is the old smokestack industries that are in decline.
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