n. (pl. -ies) 1 a branch of production or manufacture; commercial enterprise. B these collectively.

- concerted activity (a hive of industry).

- diligence. [latin industria]

adj. Not suitable for eating.

n. (pl. -ies) unfairness, injustice.

adj. Unskilful; lacking expertise.

adj. Notoriously bad. infamously adv. Infamy n. (pl. -ies).

n. (pl. -ies) body of foot-soldiers; foot-soldiers collectively. [italian infante youth, foot-soldier]

—adj. - (often foll. By to) lower in rank, quality, etc.

- of poor quality.

- situated below.

- written or printed below the line. —n. Person inferior to another, esp. In rank. [latin, comparative of inferus]

adj. - of hell; hellish.

- colloq. Detestable, tiresome. infernally adv. [latin infernus low]

—adj. - boundless, endless.

- very great or many. —n. - (the infinite) god.

- (the infinite) infinite space. infinitely adv. [latin: related to *in-1, *finite]

n. (pl. -ies) 1 being infinite; boundlessness.

- infinite number or extent.

- infinite distance (gaze into infinity).

- math. Infinite quantity.