Smokestackindustry
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Any of the heavy manufacturing industries, typically coal-powered and associated with high levels of pollution and outmoded technology (usually in plural); also absol. used attributively, of, pertaining to, or characterized by the smokestack industries, as smokestack city, smokestack economy, etc.
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