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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Online fantasy games with money at stake were to be a huge growth industry in the 2010s. — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 2 June 2026 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 There’s reason to believe that training is no longer going to be the same kind of growth industry for AI bare-metal providers; inference will be. — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for growth industry

Word History

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 7 Jul. 2026.

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