industry plant

plural industry plants

1. derogatoryslangA music artist associated with a label but appearing as if they are independent and self-made.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see industry, plant ("industrial equipment or facilities").

   Much of the heavy industry plant is now old and the investment has not been made available to modernise it.

   1997, Michael Carr, New Patterns: Process and Change in Human Geography, Nelson Thornes, →ISBN, page 236

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   […]It operates a passenger train service between the industry plant and the D. L. & W. Ry. station in Buffalo

   1916, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, Supplemental Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act