light industry

English

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Noun

light industry (countable and uncountable, plural light industries)

1. Any industry that does not require high capitalization or heavy machinery.

Antonyms

• heavy industry

Translations

industry that does not require high capitalization or heavy machinery

• Armenian: թեթև արդյունաբերություն (hy) (tʻetʻew ardyunaberutʻyun)
• Belarusian: лёгкая прамысло́васць f (ljóhkaja pramyslóvascʹ)
• Bulgarian: ле́ка проми́шленост f (léka promíšlenost)
• Catalan: indústria lleugera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輕工業 / 轻工业 (zh) (qīnggōngyè)

• Crimean Tatar: yengil sanayı
• Czech: lehký průmysl m
• Esperanto: malpeza industrio
• Estonian: kergetööstus
• Finnish: kevyt teollisuus
• French: industrie légère f
• Georgian: მსუბუქი მრეწველობა (msubuki mrec̣veloba), მსუბუქი ინდუსტრია (msubuki indusṭria)
• German: Leichtindustrie (de) f
• Hungarian: könnyűipar (hu)
• Indonesian: industri ringan (id)
• Japanese: 軽工業 (ja) (けいこうぎょう, keikōgyō)
• Kazakh: жеңіл өнеркәсіп (jeñıl önerkäsıp)
• Korean: 경공업(輕工業) (ko) (gyeonggong'eop)
• Latvian: vieglā rūpniecība f
• Lithuanian: lengvoji pramonė f
• Macedonian: лека индустрија f (leka industrija)
• Malay: perindustrian ringan
• Persian: صنایع سبک
• Polish: przemysł lekki m
• Portuguese: indústria leve f
• Romanian: industrie ușoară (ro) f
• Russian: лёгкая промы́шленность f (ljóxkaja promýšlennostʹ)
• Spanish: industria ligera f
• Ukrainian: ле́гка промисло́вість f (léhka promyslóvistʹ)

See also

• light engineering