hive of industry

English

Noun

hive of industry (plural hives of industry)

1. Synonym of hive of activity.
   • 1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:

     Algiers terminus has three platforms and a rather deserted air. [...] The docks, however, were a veritable hive of industry, and six old G.W.R. engines were helping with the shunting.

References

• “a hive-of-industry-activity etc” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.