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industrial

[ in-duhs-tree-uhl ]

adjective

  1. of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry:

    industrial production; industrial waste.

  2. having many and highly developed industries:

    an industrial nation.

  3. engaged in an industry or industries:

    industrial workers.

  4. of or relating to the workers in industries:

    industrial training.

  5. used in industry:

    industrial diamonds: industrial fabrics.

  6. noting or pertaining to industrial life insurance.


noun

  1. an industrial product:

    diamonds classed as industrials and nonindustrials.

  2. a company engaged in industrial enterprises.
  3. an employee in some industry, especially a manufacturing industry.
  4. industrials, stocks and bonds of industrial companies.

industrial

/ ɪnˈdʌstrɪəl /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of industry
  2. employed in industry

    the industrial workforce

  3. relating to or concerned with workers in industry

    industrial conditions

  4. used in industry

    industrial chemicals

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • inˈdustrially, adverb
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Other Words From

  • in·dustri·al·ly adverb
  • in·dustri·al·ness noun
  • nonin·dustri·al adjective
  • nonin·dustri·al·ly adverb
  • prein·dustri·al adjective
  • proin·dustri·al adjective
  • quasi-in·dustri·al adjective
  • quasi-in·dustri·al·ly adverb
  • semi-in·dustri·al adjective
  • semi-in·dustri·al·ly adverb
  • unin·dustri·al adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of industrial1

First recorded in 1580–90; industry + -al 1
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Example Sentences

The “industrial scale” of the plant’s gene theft is also impressive, he says.

Crews will remove and replace the 120-by-70-foot sign, one of the last, most visible vestiges of Baltimore’s once-mighty industrial past.

In its analysis, that period stands in for the time before the industrial age, which began in the mid-1700s.

The new upgrades are already rolling out, so if you’re in charge of a giant industrial company, it’s time to get your orders in.

There’s something difficult to reconcile watching Spot walk up a flight of stairs in some industrial setting.

The Industrial Revolution and Victorian practically erased the holiday in England.

The folk memory of medieval community life had been wiped out by the industrial revolution.

Fracking, in this regard, is no different from gypsum mining, or some kinds of industrial agriculture.

Moreover, trucks, dust, and boomtown stress are the effects of any large-scale industrial activity.

But they are serious: what large-scale fracking does is change small farm towns into industrial sites.

A considerable proportion of the industrial and commercial news is now written to an end.

It offers, to those who see it aright, the most perplexing industrial paradox ever presented in the history of mankind.

Industrial society, they say, must be reorganized from top to bottom; private industry must cease.

But closely allied to this subject, and not inferior to it in importance, stands that of Industrial Training.

The legal framework of the State and of obedience to the law in which industrial society is set threatens to break asunder.

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