industrial

[in-duhs-tree-uhl] Example Sentences Origin

in·dus·tri·al

[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 pertaining to the workers in industries: industrial training.
5.
used in industry: industrial diamonds: industrial fabrics.
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6.
noting or pertaining to industrial life insurance.
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noun
7.
an industrial product: diamonds classed as industrials and nonindustrials.
8.
a company engaged in industrial enterprises.
9.
an employee in some industry, especially a manufacturing industry.
10.
industrials, stocks and bonds of industrial companies.

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Industrial is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1580–90; industry + -al1

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
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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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industrial, industrious.
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Example Sentences
  • When it has been set up, the fund will focus on infrastructure projects in the transport, power and industrial sectors.
  • The worries about slowing growth mainly concern the industrial businesses.
  • Fact: renewable energy has made leaps in economic feasibility as a source for both consumer and industrial use.
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industrial (ɪnˈdʌstrɪəl)
 
adj
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
 
in'dustrially
 
adv

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industrial
1774, from Fr. industriel, from M.L. industrialis, from L. industria (see industry). As a style of dance music, attested from 1988.
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