SERVICE INDUSTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does service industry mean? 

• SERVICE INDUSTRY (noun)
  The noun SERVICE INDUSTRY has 1 sense:

1. an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects

  Familiarity information: SERVICE INDUSTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERVICE INDUSTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An industry that provides services rather than tangible objects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("service industry" is a kind of...):

industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "service industry"):

management consulting (a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business)