hive of industry

English

Noun

hive of industry (plural hives of industry)

Synonym of hive of activity.
- 1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:
  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.

References

“a hive-of-industry-activity etc” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.

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