Usually means: Small-scale, home-based business production.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. cottage industry: Merriam-Webster
  2. cottage industry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cottage industry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cottage industry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cottage industry: Vocabulary.com
  6. cottage industry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cottage industry: Wiktionary
  8. cottage industry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. cottage industry: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cottage industry: Dictionary.com
  11. Cottage Industry (EP), Cottage Industry, Cottage industry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. cottage industry: Rhymezone
  13. cottage industry: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cottage industry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. cottage industry: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. cottage industry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cottage industry: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cottage industry: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cottage industry)

noun:  A job or occupation carried out at home or on a part-time basis, historically often manufacturing work such as sewing, lacemaking, or spinning.
noun:  (by extension) A small-scale industry, with relatively few employees or a limited customer base or low economic impact.

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