industrialadjective
uk/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/us/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/B2 in or related to industry, or having a lot of industry and factories, etc.:
industrial output
industrial expansion
an industrial landscape/nation
He has an industrial background (= he has worked in industry).
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- The fund provides money to clean up chemically polluted industrial sites.
- The developers dealt with the problem in the time-honoured way, burying the industrial waste in landfill sites.
- Houses near industrial sites often do not sell so quickly because they are regarded as undesirable.
- There's a long history of industrial disputes at the factory.
- It's the unrelieved drabness of big industrial cities that depresses me.
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Industry & industrial processes
- carding
- compression moulding
- deindustrialization
- die cutting
- heavy industry
- industrialization
- industry-wide
- injection moulding
- just-in-time
- light industry
- machine carding
- mining
- prebuilt
- prefabricated
- quality assurance
- quality control
- raw
- rustbelt
- tertiary
- vulcanized
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industrially
adverb uk/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.ə.li/us/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.ə.li/
industrialnoun
uk/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/us/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/specialized[ C ] a company whose main business is producing goods:
He owns a series of industrials across the US and beyond.
industrials [ plural noun ]
shares in industrial companies:
On Thursday the industrials moved up more than 50 points.
Industrials were up 1.2 percent at the close of trading.
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Enterprises
- acquirer
- acquiror
- agency
- airline
- answering service
- auction house
- collective
- consultancy
- enterprise
- est
- establishment
- firm
- fragmented
- franchise
- outfit
- plc
- private company
- private practice
- Pty
- public company
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