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cottage industry

Business activity, especially one on a relatively small scale, undertaken by people in their homes and often using their own equipment. The term has frequently been applied to traditional crafts such as weaving or pottery.



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McCoy Rigby, a theatrical company that has made a cottage industry of ``Peter Pan,'' clearly couldn't resist spiriting Eric Anderson's Merlin out of the action via flight and wires.
Desire for ever-greater utility has created a cottage industry in storage space, third-row seating, and dual-use vehicles that never see a dirt road much less a mountain trail.
The source of the smell, the Carlson family's cottage industry, which produces a sure-fire catfish bait ("the single most noxious-smelling substance on this planet"), creates the book's central dilemma: Cade, foul-smelling but kindhearted, doesn't believe in killing fish.
 
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