industrial

Forms

1.Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
- The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.
- The sight of a teenager walking the small town's streets would usually go unnoticed, but to Benicia Police Cpl. Kirk Keffer, things didn't look right on the quiet street in the industrial part of town.
2.Produced by such industry.
- Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.
3.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.
4.Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.
- This is an industrial product, it's much too strong for home use.

1.A bond or stock issued by such a company.
- A very short time later a terrible line in a financial daily, "Consols weak", caught his agitated eye. Consols were precipitately abandoned and a "sound industrial" took their place.
2.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.
3.An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
4.Ellipsis of industrial music.(informal)
- I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.

Uncommon· #2373

From French industriel.

By surface analysis, industry + -al.