industrial

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.

Example sentences

When too many companies outsource their manufacturing, the industrial ecosystem

can suffer long-term consequences.

My experience with brainstorming has been in academic and industrial settings.

They will never take over all our jobs, only the basic one any was eg

agriculture and industrial produce.

Genetically modified crops designed for industrial agriculture have given the

technology a bad rap.

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"A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith."

-Rutherford Birchard Hayes