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COTTAGE INDUSTRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cottage industry mean?
• COTTAGE INDUSTRY (noun)
The noun COTTAGE INDUSTRY has 1 sense:
1. small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment
Familiarity information: COTTAGE INDUSTRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("cottage industry" is a kind of...):
industry; manufacture (the organized action of making of goods and services for sale)
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