state-owned industry
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industry
noun
uk/ˈɪn.də.stri/us/ˈɪn.də.stri/
the companies and activities involved in the process of producing goods for sale, especially in a factory or ...
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(Definition ofindustryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The economic bureaucracy itself became routinized; its management of thestate-ownedindustrygrew more cumbersome and rule-ridden.
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There is an opportunity to allow a breath of private capital and enterprise into thestate-ownedindustry.
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Thestate-ownedindustrywill have a clear duty to accept privately generated electricity at a fair price and to provide a standby supply.
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Will he consider having a debate about the principle of privatised warship yards having to compete with subsidisedstate-ownedindustry?
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Astate-ownedindustry, particularly a state-owned monopoly, is run in the interests of producers, not passengers.
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We have as the undertaker for the development an operation which is astate-ownedindustry.
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This is not somestate-ownedindustryin which public funds have been swallowed by wage increases instead of being invested in new technology.
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The private sector now makes up most of industrial output and even the foreign-invested sector has overtakenstate-ownedindustry.
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If astate-ownedindustryis able to keep operating with losses, it may continue operating indefinitely producing things that are not in high consumer demand.
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This involved the deregulation of markets, the privatisation of state-owned industries, and reform of the trade unions.
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Most state-owned industries have closed, and a chaotic land reform has left most rural households with tiny, fragmented holdings that were redistributed from the state farms and co-operatives.
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In 1979, the borrowings and losses of state-owned industries were costed at some £3 billion a year.
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The management of the pension funds of state-owned industries is a matter for the individual industry concerned and for the fund trustees.
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It has transformed former state-owned industries and brought real improvements for customers and employees alike.
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State-owned industries tend to have political decisions made within them that affect their profitability.
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State-owned industries should now be operating in the regions.
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Better still, however, than the manufacturing of substitutes for market forces, is the opening up of the state-owned industries.
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We used to spend nearly £2 billion a year—£35 million a week —propping up those state-owned industries.
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The privatisation of other state-owned industries, such as local authority bus companies, will follow.
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