cottage industry is a noun meaning "small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment". It carries one recorded sense.
small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cottage industry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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