Industrial Meaning
/ɪnˈdʌs.tɹi.əl/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
adjProduced by such industry.
Sentence Examples
Banks are cutting lending to industrial borrowers.
It occurred to me that he might be an industrial spy.
The industrial estate is 6 kilometres from the city centre.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The city's ____ zone was filled with factories and warehouses emitting smoke.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The city has a large ____ zone where many different types of goods are manufactured daily.
Word Origin & History
From French industriel. By surface analysis, industry + -al.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The city's ____ zone was filled with factories and warehouses emitting smoke.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The city has a large ____ zone where many different types of goods are manufactured daily.