Definitions
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- noun Domestic manufacturing or commercial activity seen as being a
precursor toindustrialization ;cottage industry .
Etymologies
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From proto- + industry.
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As our economy heads south, I was interested in finding out how the proto-industry fared in those earlier days.
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