From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Industryindustrialin‧dus‧tri‧al /ɪnˈdʌstriəl/ ●●●S3W1 adjective1TIrelating to industry or the people working in itindustrial production/output
Industrial production has risen by 0.5% since November.industrial development/growth
rapid post-war industrial developmentindustrial conflict/dispute/unrest (=disagreement between workers and their employers)
Last year 1.3 million workers took part in industrial disputes.industrial accident/injury (=happening at work)2TIhaving many industriesindustrial countries/nations/states
a meeting of the world’s major industrial nationsindustrial area/zone
pollution in industrial areas
By 1900, Britain was a mainly industrial society.3TIof the type used in industry
cleaning products that are for industrial use only (=not to be used at home) —industrially adverbExamples from the Corpusindustrial• Increased competition and easierindustrialcollaboration in a less sheltereddefence market will not save jobs.• The government is giving high priority to industrialdevelopment.• The Gabriel-Havez school in Creil where they live stands in the heart of the town's industrialestate.• an industrialnation• High-tech companies also have moved into the industrialpark that was first home to Wrigley.• modernindustrialpractices• The skyscrapers of Manhattan dazzled him as emblems of Westernindustrialprogress.• Chapter 9 explores this theme by looking at the role of the trade unions in political bargaining over new industrialrelationsstrategies.• Milford, in the Derwent valley just south of Belper, is a complete and almost untouched late eighteenth-century industrialvillage.• industrialwaste• The factory has developed an ingenious way of dealing with industrial waste.industrial production/output• Overall, industrial electricitysales grew twice as fast as industrial output.• The move follows a government-commissioned report, which warns that the taxes are having an adverse effect on industrial production.• This became the basis for its industrial production.• Tomorrow, revisedNovemberindustrial production and December money supplyfigures are released.• In the first two months of this year industrial productiondropped by 29%.• Working Conditions Most industrial productionmanagersdivide their time between the shopfloor and their office.• Most industrial production managers work more than 40 hours a week, especially when productiondeadlines must be met.• Unemploymentrose from 7.5 million to nearly 10.5 million in 1938 as industrial productionslumped.industrial countries/nations/states• But it is becoming increasingly important that an accord on foreigncorporateinvestment is negotiated between leading industrial nations.• Debt is the direct result of the bankingstructure that has enriched the G7 leading industrial nations.• He remains a federalemployee and is handlingpreparations for the upcoming meeting of the seven majorindustrial nations.• Citizens in both industrial countries and developing countries watch greater amounts of television each year.• The conference, bringing together the world's seven leading industrial nations, centred on trade talks.• This year marks the first time that the four industrial states have lumped their primaries together early in a campaign.• But other big industrial countries will be ageing even faster.industrial use• It sustains the flow of rivers, from which we take water for drinking and many industrial uses.• Most diamonds are brown or yellow with little visualappeal and are fit only for industrial use.• The other 20 percent goes for industrial uses and coins.• The industrial use of oil, 3. 4in, constitutes an even more temptingalternativefuelstarget.• The first industrial use of power on the Moon will probably be for the manufacture of propellants and life-support materials.• The village was first mentioned in records of 1707 developing as a result of the increased industrial use of the river.• The cleaner is for industrial use only.• Peat remains a vitalisland fuel but little if any is exported and there is no industrial use such as whisky distilling.From Longman Business Dictionaryindustrialin‧dus‧tri‧al /ɪnˈdʌstriəl/ adjective1connected with industrybig industrial companies such as Fiat S.p.AThe industrial sector remained weak at the end of the first quarter.China’s industrial output dropped sharply after floods stopped production in many factories.2having many industries, or industries that are well developedThe industrial nations are less dependent on oil than they were a decade ago.the industrial heartland (=the part where there is most industry) of Southern California3of the type used in industrya company that sells industrial fire alarms.companies with big interests in industrial chemicalsindustrial products such as cooling and heating equipment → see alsoindustrials
