sunset industry
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Noun
sunset industry (plural sunset industries)
- A type of business that is obsolescent.
- Antonym: sunrise industry
- 1986, Morton Schoolman, Alvin Magid, Reindustrializing New York State: Strategies, Implications, Challenges, →ISBN, page 53:
- Yet, the negative image one hears at present is not of a "sweatshop industry" but of a "sunset industry."
- 2007, Philip Jenks, Stephen Eckett, The Harriman House Book of Investing Rules, →ISBN, page 50:
- It may be mature but it's not a sunset industry, and arguably not one sector.
- 2013, Robert Ash, Christopher Howe, Y Y Kueh, China's Economic Reform: A Study with Documents, →ISBN:
- But a traditional industry is not a sunset industry. The textile industry is both an old industry and an evergreen industry.
- 2015, David Alliance, A Bazaar Life: The Autobiography of David Alliance, →ISBN:
- But where others saw a sunset industry, David Alliance saw opportunity, and for a glorious period in the 1970s and1980s he seemed to have turned back the tide, basically through his ingenuity, hard work and sheer determination.
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