industrial

CEFRB1

/ɪnˈdʌs.tɹi.əl/

adjective

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adjective
Related to factories, manufacturing, or large-scale business.
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adjective
Extra detail
Produced by such industry.

Examples

Banks are cutting lending to industrial borrowers.
It occurred to me that he might be an industrial spy.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

/ɪnˈɖɐs.ʈɾɪ.ɐl/

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adjective

Extra meanings

Used by such industry.
Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.

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In context

The industrial estate is 6 kilometres from the city centre.
Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.
The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.

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The city's blank zone was filled with factories and warehouses emitting smoke.

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The sight of a teenager walking the small town's streets would usually go unnoticed, but to Benicia Police Cpl. Kirk Keffer, things didn't look right on the quiet street in the industrial part of town.
2016 November 18, Dan Simon, “Officers buy bike for teen who walked hours to work”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2016
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, page 29
More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand.
1913, “There Is Power in a Union”, in Little Red Songbook, performed by Joe Hill
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023

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Origin

adjective

From French industriel. By surface analysis, industry + -al.

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The city's blank— zone was filled with factories and warehouses emitting smoke.

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adjective

The city's blank zone was filled with factories and warehouses emitting smoke.