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nounhive of industry (plural hives of industry)
plural hives of industry
- Synonym of hive of activity.
Algiers terminus has three platforms and a rather deserted air. [...] The docks, however, were a veritable hive of industry, and six old G.W.R. engines were helping with the shunting.
1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 5Synonyms: hive of activity
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nounSynonym of hive of activity.
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