industrial

IPA: ɪndˈʌstriʌɫ

(dated, 19th-mid 20th century) An employee in industry.
(business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
(finance) A bond or stock issued by such a company.
(film) A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.
An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States.
A township in Saginaw, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
(informal, uncountable) Short for industrial music. [A noisy, experimental genre of music with transgressive themes.]
(informal) Short for industrial piercing. [(US) A piercing, especially of the upper ear cartilage, in which two pierced holes are connected with a single straight piece of jewelry.]

Examples of "industrial" in Sentences

Progress has to do with what we call the industrial arts, their development, and the consequent increase of wealth and comfort.
"That's not what you call industrial integration," says Francois Heisbourg, chairman of the Geneva Center for Security Policy in Geneva.
Liveris concedes that -- for weird historical reasons -- the term "industrial policy" is too politically toxic to use, but that's what he's talking about.
Brooklyn; now editor of our most influential religious weekly; a liberal both in theology and politics; a modernist, an advocate of what he calls industrial democracy.
Arab conquest of the island in 827, whilst new ideas were imported, still the old Greek cities kept their ancient traditions and methods in art, especially in those branches we term industrial, and just as both
I place upon the witness-stand an exponent of Bible-Christianity whom all readers of our newspapers know well: a scholar of learning, a publicist of renown; once pastor of the most famous church in Brooklyn; now editor of our most influential religious weekly; a liberal both in theology and politics; a modernist, an advocate of what he calls industrial democracy.