textile industry

run a business, keep a store, carry on operations

many years

(used with negatives) for a long time

many years / a long lifespan

(literary) they (about women or girls)

(colloquial) a girlfriend (a female partner in a romantic relationship)

(formal) Female third-person singular pronoun; she, her, girlfriend

a family, a household

work, task, business: the job at hand / profession, business, trade: what one does to earn a living / studies, scholarship (the act of being a scholar), the arts