cottage industry

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   small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment

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Questions about cottage industry

What does cottage industry mean?

cottage industry means "small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment".

Is cottage industry a common word?

cottage industry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.