growth industry

noun

: a business that has become increasingly popular or profitable
also : an interest or activity that is increasingly popular or trendy

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Roustan acknowledges that the wooden hockey stick market is not a growth industry and, at best, production will hold steady. Joseph Hostetler, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025 Much of that work is getting private and public funding, even in a time when government spending on science is drying up, because the discoveries could fuel quantum computing, which is widely viewed as a potential growth industry over the next few decades. Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 28 Sep. 2025 Jim Cramer has long said cybersecurity is a secular growth industry because data is the new gold, and hackers want their hands all over it. Paulina Likos, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025 In recent decades, predicting the future of everything has become a growth industry, especially in politics. Robert B. Tucker, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for growth industry

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First Known Use

1954, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of growth industry was in 1954

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“Growth industry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/growth%20industry. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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