Meaning Of The Word Cottage industry

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cottage industry
countable noun: A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.

cottage industry in American English
a manufacturing activity carried on, as in the early part of the Industrial Revolution, by farming out work to be done in the workers' homes
noun: the production, for sale, of goods at home, as the making of handicrafts by rural families

cottage industry in British English
noun: an industry in which employees work in their own homes, often using their own equipment

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