{
  "id": "industry.economic",
  "term": "industry",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "industry",
  "domain": "economic",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "an organized system where work makes products",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "work.effort",
      "system.organized",
      "products.goods",
      "make.verb",
      "organized.structure"
    ],
    "interaction": "organized system and work make products",
    "novel_properties": [
      "organized production",
      "persistent output",
      "structural integration of effort"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Ford River Rouge Complex in 1927 produced entire Model T cars from raw materials on site.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Intel's Fab 11X in Chandler, Arizona, manufactured 300mm semiconductor wafers in 2001.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The cod fishing industry on Newfoundland's Grand Banks collapsed by 1992 after centuries of operation.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "business.economic",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "economic.financial",
    "industrial.economic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "industries",
    "industry"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'make.verb' and 'organized.structure' to components because the definition and interaction rely on the notions of making and persistent structure, which were previously omitted."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-industry.economic"
}