agroindustry
nounEtymology From agro- + industry.
1
Agricultural activity viewed as an industrial sector of the economy.
- Meronym: Big Ag
- Near-synonym: agribusiness
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- In the seventeenth century, the strategy for sugar production, a labor-intensive agro-industry, was to keep the manpower cost down through slavery.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 80:
- Related terms
- agroindustrial