Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tertiary industry

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English

Syllables: ter-tiary in-dus-try
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An industry that provides goods or services to consumers using raw materials from primary industry and goods processed by secondary industry.

Inflected Forms

tertiary industries (plural)

Questions

What does tertiary industry mean?: An industry that provides goods or services to consumers using raw materials from primary industry and goods processed by secondary industry.

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