industrialistn.adj.

1839 Mechanics' Mag. 27 July 304/2 Mr. Escher, who is one of the first and most scientific industrialists of the continent, is at the head of this establishment.

1864 Times 23 Mar. The well-to-do industrialists, and the landowners.

1869 M. Arnold Culture & Anarchy vi. 268 Industrialists in search of gentility.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Aug. 4/1 When once men have begun to be divided definitely into industrialists and fighters [etc.].

1929 Amer. Mercury Jan. 47/1 If mass production is not bringing real prosperity to the rank and file of industrialists, then the New Industrialism is obviously worshipping a false god.

1956 Ann. Reg. 1955 227 Influential bankers and industrialists complained that the ‘credit squeeze’ had been overdone and warned against the danger of deflation.

2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! v. 48 The armed struggle will be in three phases: the first will be industrial sabotage to show the big industrialists of the régime that we mean business.

1842 S. Laing Notes of Traveller iii. 75 A living in either of those branches of public employment..forming no object to the great mass of the industrialist-class to breed up their sons to.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 197/2 What Saint-Simon desired..was an industrialist state directed by modern science.

1947 M. Horkheimer Eclipse of Reason i. 40 The transformation of all products of human activity into commodities was achieved only with the emergence of industrialist society.

2008 E. Gabara Errant Modernism iii. 138 Palavicini's politics mixed progress-minded industrialist ideals with a proclaimed concern for true social equality.