industrial
/ɪnˈdʌs.tɹi.əl/ adjective B1- Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing. · The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.
- Produced by such industry. · Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.
- Used by such industry.
- Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade. · This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.
- Massive in scale or quantity.
- Employed as manpower by such industry.
- Having many industries; industrialized. · Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.
- Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music. · a track with clashing industrial beats
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I and a brother banker have obtained a grant of a railway, the only industrial enterprise which in these days promises to make good the fabulous prospects that Law once held out to the eternally deluded Parisians, in the fantastic Mississippi scheme.
However, as the twentieth century progressed, the lure of industrial employment prompted a massive migration northward.
Instead, he discovered only a small, blackened plaque on an industrial wall marking the approximate site of the original Globe Theatre.
Clemens eloquently captures the bittersweet realization that the romanticized world of his youth had irrevocably vanished, replaced by the relentless march of industrial progress.
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