Synonyms for cottage industry
cot·tage in·dus·t·ry

Princeton's WordNet

1. cottage industrynoun

   small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment

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1. Richard Pollack:

   Lice salons as a cottage industry are spreading faster than lice themselves ... I am pretty certain you would not have to drive more than an hour to find someone, business is booming.

2. Primo Levi:

   After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.

3. Jason Barowitz:

   Mr. Abrams is a member of the cottage industry that seeks to personally profit off of Robert’s victims, even if it involves disrupting the prosecution of the murder of Susan Berman, the truth is that the Durst family is appalled by Robert’s actions and has cooperated with authorities to help ensure justice is served.

4. Joe Biden:

   Even in a city where influence-peddling isa virtual cottage industry, the Bidens took the corrupt practice to a truly Olympian level.