One general tendency is that as standards of living rise the service industries absorb a greater proportion of the labour force, because the rising demand for their output is not generally offset, as in manufacturing, by a progressive reduction in the amount of labour required to produce a given output.
"This industry absorbs a lot of employment.
Permitting and production were set back months while the industry absorbed the changes.
"There were people laid off when they did economic shock treatment, but the growing service industry absorbed them.
Brazilian industry absorbs most of the raw materials produced by Amazonas, but rubber, timber, jute, vegetable oils, nuts, resins, aquarium fishes, and skins are exported.
Over all, the legal industry absorbed nearly 3.9 million square feet of office space in Manhattan in 2003, outpacing for the first time in five years financial services concerns -- typically the most active sector, which took 2.9 million square feet -- according to a report by Jones Lang LaSalle, the real estate services firm.
By 2014, the national biodiesel industry absorbed 55% of the palm oil sales to the domestic market [45] linked to the gradual implementation of a 10% biodiesel blending mandate introduced in 2008.
In the other countries, the unlimited demand for fish seed of the well-developed and growing aquaculture industry absorbs most of the fish seed.
Less recognized is the major importance of industry in absorbing the PDs produced during this period.
The industries that absorb most of the day workers are restaurants, landscaping, construction, agriculture and domestic service.
