- in|dus|tri|al
- in|dus|tri|al «ihn DUHS tree uhl», adjective, noun.–adj.1. of or resulting from industry or productive labor: »
industrial products.
2. having many industries: »industrial nations.
3. engaged in or connected with industries, trades, or manufactures: »industrial activity, an industrial exhibition. Industrial workers work at trades or in factories. An industrial school teaches trades.
4. of or having to do with the workers in industries: »industrial insurance.
5. for use in industry: »industrial machines.
6. much greater or much more than normally is needed or used: »Laurie…put a lock on the bedroom door: “an industrial-strength Segal lock,” he says with amusement (New York Magazine).
–n.1. a worker in some industry.2. an owner or a manager of an industrial enterprise.3. a stock, bond, etc., of an industrial enterprise.4. rock music that has amplified instrumental effects resembling machinery and little melody: »On Meantime, the group's major label debut, industrial, hardcore and metal get smelted down into one gnarly slab (Michael Azerrad).
╂[earlier < Medieval Latin industrialis < Latin industria diligence, industry; later < French industriel < industrie, learned borrowing from Latin industria]–in|dus´tri|al|ly, adverb.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.