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Definition of industrial adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

industrial

adjective
 
/ɪnˈdʌstriəl/
 
/ɪnˈdʌstriəl/
[usually before noun]
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  1. connected with industry
    • an industrial dispute
    • industrial unrest
    • an industrial accident
    • Industrial production fell in December by 1.4 per cent.
    • policy with regard to future industrial development
    • India has a large industrial sector.
    • a huge industrial complex
    • the country's industrial base
    Topics Businessb2, Jobsb2 see also agro-industrial
  2. used by industries
    • industrial chemicals
  3. having many industries
    • an industrial city/town
    • an industrial society
    • the world’s leading industrial nations
    see also post-industrial
  4. very great in extent or amount
    • They had made industrial quantities of food.
    • They were guilty of fraud on an industrial scale.
  5. Word Originlate 15th cent.: from industry + -al; in later use influenced by French industriel.
See industrial in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee industrial in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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