Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A usually small-scale industry carried on at home by family members using their own equipment.
- n. A small, loosely organized, yet flourishing complex of activity or industry: "The study of Gandhi has become a virtual cottage industry in the last 30 years, producing schools, museums, foundations and more than 400 biographies” ( Jean Strouse).
Wiktionary
- n. A job or occupation carried out at home or on a part-time basis.
- n. A small-scale industry, with relatively few employees or a limited customer base or low economic impact.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment
Examples
“A charge leveled by Hillary Rodham Clinton at her husband’s nattering, battering cottage industry of vilifiers makes it into the political lexicon.”
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“A cottage industry grew within conservative think tanks, arguing not only that cultural pathologies-rather than racism or structural inequalities built into our economy-were responsible for black poverty but also that government programs like welfare, coupled with liberal judges who coddled criminals, actually made these pathologies worse.”
“In any other country, Alan Wolfelt’s cottage industry wouldn’t exist.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘cottage industry’.
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BUSI - collocations
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Panvocalic phrases
Phrases or words that are not mononyms (being hyphenated or two or more words), that contain all the vowels once, "y" optional. For phrases with some or all of the words capitalized see Panvocalic ...
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new words
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