0 a cloth made by hand or machine:
the textile industry
2 cloth made by hand or machine in large quantities:
3 the industry that makes cloth in large quantities:
The 132,000 new jobs do not come from agriculture, shipbuilding, or textiles.
She makes a big profit from selling waste material to textile companies.
The textile industry still relies to some extent on sweated labour.
We only use the finest textiles for our upholstery.
With the second national textile contract in 1927, unions thus got the exclusive right to hire.
This representation of rich textiles and fabrics served to heighten the illusion of the grandeur, the splendour and the power of the king.
But the new unions, at least in textiles, were not company unions.
In the manufacturing sector, the main areas of funding were chemicals, food products, metals, clothing, and textiles and forest products.
