COTTAGE INDUSTRY Definition & Meaning

cottage industry

noun

the production, for sale, of goods at home, as the making of handicrafts by rural families.
any small-scale, loosely organized industry.

cottage industry

noun

an industry in which employees work in their own homes, often using their own equipment

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of cottage industry¹

First recorded in 1920–25

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In the last couple of years, a cottage industry of unique, new social apps has cropped.

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Judge Butterfield said it would be wrong to dismiss the enterprise as "a minor cottage industry" and that it was instead "large scale, organised and determined".

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Meanwhile, the PM will take aim at the "cottage industry of checkers and blockers slowing down delivery".

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He will take aim at a "cottage industry of checkers and blockers slowing down delivery for working people", as he argues the state has become bigger but weaker.

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Proposition 65, they say, has resulted in a cottage industry of so-called bounty hunters that target California companies for payouts.

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