The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word INDUSTRY
I've seen this crossword clue in Independent
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More clues leading to the result INDUSTRY
- Asian runner getting taste for work
- Attempt to follow long Asian river? That'll be hard work
- Work to find sample at bottom of river
- Flower tax for business
- Attempt to follow river: hard work
- Perhaps shipbuilding by River Test
- As disused stations are covered by railway work
- At home clean extremely rigorously – diligence
- Manufacturing requires hard work
- Effort getting river sample
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The straight part
We know that "perhaps shipbuilding" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case perhaps shipbuilding = industry.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does INDUSTRY mean?
INDUSTRY noun- The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.
- Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
- Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
- (in the singular) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
- Automated production of material goods.
- A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.