industrial

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Etymology [edit]

industry +‎ -al

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  • IPA: /ɪnˈdʌstrɪəl/
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Adjective [edit]

industrial (comparative more industrial, superlative most industrial)

  1. of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
    The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.
  2. produced by such industry.
    Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.
  3. used by such industry.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion[1]:
      More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
  4. employed as manpower by such industry.
  5. (of a society or country) having many industries; industrialized.
    Italy is a part industrial, part rural nation.
  6. (music) Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.
    a track with clashing industrial beats.

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Noun [edit]

industrial (plural industrials)

  1. (dated, 19th-mid 20th century) An employee in industry
  2. (business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
  3. (finance) A bond or stock issued by such company

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Portuguese [edit]

Adjective [edit]

industrial m and f (plural industriais; comparable)

  1. industrial

Spanish [edit]

Adjective [edit]

industrial m and f (plural industriales)

  1. industrial

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