industrial

1. 1

   Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.

   • The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.
2. 2

   Produced by such industry.

   • Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.
3. 3

   Used by such industry.

   • 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.
4. 4

   Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.

   • This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.
5. 5

   Massive in scale or quantity.

6. 6

   Employed as manpower by such industry.

   • Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand.
7. 7

   Having many industries; industrialized.

   • Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.
8. 8

   Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.

   • a track with clashing industrial beats

ant. nonindustrial · unindustrial

1. 1

   An employee in industry.countabledatedobsolete

2. 2

   An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.countableuncountable

3. 3

   A bond or stock issued by such a company.countableuncountable

   • A very short time later a terrible line in a financial daily—"Consols weak"—caught his agitated eye. Consols were precipitately abandoned and a "sound industrial" took their place.
4. 4

   A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.countableuncountable

   • Actor, director, and producer for three decades offers coaching and directing in scenes, improves, cold copy, script analysis, commercials, voice-overs, industrials, film, and stage.
5. 5

   Ellipsis of industrial music.abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

   • I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.
6. 6

   Ellipsis of industrial piercing.abbreviationalt-ofcountable