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MOVIE INDUSTRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does movie industry mean?
• MOVIE INDUSTRY (noun)
The noun MOVIE INDUSTRY has 1 sense:
1. the entertainment industries involved in producing and distributing movies
Familiarity information: MOVIE INDUSTRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The entertainment industries involved in producing and distributing movies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
film industry; movie industry
Hypernyms ("movie 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 "movie industry"):
Bollywood (the film industry of India)
filmdom; screen; screenland (the personnel of the film industry)
Hollywood (the film industry of the United States)
Holonyms ("movie industry" is a part of...):
entertainment industry; show biz; show business (those involved in providing entertainment: radio and television and films and theater)
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