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industrial

[in-duhs-tree-uhl]

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adjective

of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.

having many and highly developed industries: an industrial nation.

engaged in an industry or industries: industrial workers.

of or pertaining to the workers in industries: industrial training.

used in industry: industrial diamonds: industrial fabrics.

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noting or pertaining to industrial life insurance.

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noun

an industrial product: diamonds classed as industrials and nonindustrials.

a company engaged in industrial enterprises.

an employee in some industry, especially a manufacturing industry.

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industrials, stocks and bonds of industrial companies.

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Origin:
1580–90; industry + -al¹

Related forms

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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Can be confused: industrial, industrious.

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Example Sentences

Third, universities have begun to experiment with much closer forms of industrial affiliation.

Industrial production in the rich world collapsed during the crisis.

Wrenching environmental problems are plaguing the world's newest industrial powerhouse.

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Third, universities have begun to experiment with much closer forms of industrial affiliation.

Industrial production in the rich world collapsed during the crisis.

Wrenching environmental problems are plaguing the world's newest industrial powerhouse.

And neither does it record the use of synthetic pesticides on individual industrial farms.

Only the grit was useful, mostly for industrial applications such as dental drills and hacksaw blades.

Industrial chic yet comfortable, this is a great place to dine solo at the bar.

Take one pizza, place on an industrial laser line cutter and stand back.

Demand for industrial salt is steady and predictable.

The proposed epoch is often said to have started with the industrial revolution, some two centuries ago.

Recent advances are no third industrial revolution.

Most schools follow a model designed for an industrial economy.

Created from a onetime industrial area, the park features a small wetland and a historic carousel.

European countries set rules for liability in cases of international industrial accidents.

Unfortunately, this sudden conversion to the merits of an industrial economy was mistimed.

As they move over urban centers they pick up particles from industrial pollution.

Small particles are commonplace in industrial processes, and charging is a perennial problem.

The amount of mercury emitted into the atmosphere has tripled, by some estimates, during the past century of industrial activity.

Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice.

GE plans to sell its consumer and industrial division.

Nothing, however, has precipitated the water crisis more than three decades of breakneck industrial growth.

In industrial ecology, they look at industry as an ecosystem of sorts.

Colombia's third-largest city is the country's economic and industrial hub, even if it is often overlooked by travelers.

Tell us what you think of these shining examples of industrial design gone awry.

Biomimetics is the concept of industrial design and engineering mimicking characteristics found in nature.

It does kill people in industrial accidents, so you can have a nice insulated plastic cup.

Much emphasis on industrial mills, and military memorabilia, including uniforms and weaponry.

But pollution and industrial development threaten the health of many rivers there.

Fact: renewable energy has made leaps in economic feasibility as a source for both consumer and industrial use.

But the great turtle is no match for industrial fishing fleets.

Today, garnets are used primarily for industrial sanding purposes rather than gemstones.

Exhibits on the area's rich industrial and domestic history are featured throughout the building.

But there have been accidents, and mistrust has been sown as the industrial process has moved into rural communities.

Investors and developers are buying and building big industrial sites, armed with data showing declining vacancy rates.

Southwest landscape designers seem to have a special flair for turning ordinary industrial materials into sophisticated.

Yet the same politicians give a thumbs up to union lobbyists promoting work guarantees for industrial plant employees.

The worries about slowing growth mainly concern the industrial businesses.

Accusations fly over criminal dumping and scuttling of cargo ships carrying industrial and radioactive waste.

Moreover, the idea of smashing machines as a form of industrial protest did not begin or end with them.

Mercury is a naturally occurring poisonous metal that is released into the environment from industrial sources.

Bamboo is an easy way to send a message about the green credentials of a product, say industrial designers.

The challenges are different for old industrial cities, which often have an entrenched work force and political structure.

And third, it will bar industrial companies from owning financial subsidiaries.

Newly evolved earthworms found at old mining sites eat toxic waste and could help cleanse polluted industrial land.

The museum has re-purposed the mill by recreating tableaux of home and work in an industrial community.

Industrial items are juxtaposed with the unabashedly feminine, travel souvenirs are grouped.

The latest old school industrial business to receive.

The company is opening offices in the industrial northeastern part of the country to improve its access to engineering.

Over the past two decades the old guard has taken a rusting industrial base and from it made gleaming corporate giants.

As industrial processes developed, so the pollution worsened.

The new registry will track emissions from all major industrial sources in the country.

Every year, biologists brave the world's deserts, jungles and industrial ecosystems looking for new species digg_url.

Later, as deputy chairman for petrochemicals, he tackled sour industrial relations and disjointed management at the plant.

Working from small pole-and-line boats to giant industrial trawlers.

Researchers boost the performance of nanomachines, bringing them a step closer to medical and industrial uses.

One industrial designer thinks he's found a solution: a better, safer helmet.

When it has been set up, the fund will focus on infrastructure projects in the transport, power and industrial sectors.

But the study suggests that the fuels may be better used outside gas tanks for heating homes and providing industrial power.

Both men had been warning for years that industrial controllers were ripe for attack, but few took them seriously.

In the process, industrial countries will strike a different medium-term trade.

The spatial patterns of industrial labor systems have changed over time.

Now the results of a new study suggest that industrial pollution could cause genetic defects, too.

It achieved total design unity in combination with a high-volume industrial process.

But they have proved a valuable way to rejuvenate industrial districts and boost communities that once relied on manufacturing.

Consider basic questions such as whether your country is primarily agricultural or industrial.

Computer viruses have taken out hardened industrial control systems.

The economy was not helped by a fall in industrial output.

It spawned the development of modern industrial robots and revolutionized how cars are manufactured today.

The city has a miasmic, sweetly offensive odor impregnable to the monsoon or to the daily industrial pollution.

Your challenge is to turn your burnt-out industrial hometown into a thriving, sustainable community.

Wang thinks he has a molecule that will be ready to scale up to industrial levels in an affordable way.

Top of the list so far is the idea of using an industrial microwave machine, such as those used to dry timber.

Working from small pole-and-line boats to giant industrial trawlers, fishermen remove more.

More industrial epidemiology of this kind could improve worker health protections, many of which are extremely outdated.

Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste.

The company is also looking into unusual new territory including water flowing in and out of industrial sites.

Industrial cutting laser in a fingertip for workers.

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World English Dictionary

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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Word Origin & History

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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