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In some senses, industrial is marked as dated, obsolete, informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.
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.
Produced by such industry.
Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.
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.
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.
noun
An employee in industry.
An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
A bond or stock issued by such a company.
A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.
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.
Ellipsis of industrial music.
I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.
name
An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States.
A township in Saginaw, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.