primary industry

English

Examples (Levels of Industry)
primary industry: apple orchard secondary industry: apple sauce manufacturer tertiary industry: grocery store

Noun

primary industry (plural primary industries)

1. (economics) An industry that processes raw materials for conversion by secondary industry into goods or services sold by tertiary industry to provide goods or services to consumers.

Hypernyms

• primary sector

Translations

industry providing raw materials

• Finnish: perusteollisuus, raaka-aineteollisuus
• German: Hauptwirtschaftszweig m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: primærnæring m or f

  Nynorsk: primærnæring f