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in·dus·tri·al Listen to audio/ɪnˈdʌstrijəl/ adjective
1 : of or relating to industry : of or relating to factories, the people who work in factories, or the things made in factories
industrial development There are thousands of industrial uses for plastic. an industrial engineer He had an industrial accident. [=an accident at work]
2 [more industrial; most industrial] : having a developed industry : having factories that actively make a product
an industrial nation/region/city
3 : coming from or used in industry : made or used in factories
industrial diamonds an industrial chemical ; also : stronger than most other products of its kind
an industrial cleaner
— in·dus·tri·al·ly adverb
industrially made glass Most crops are grown industrially. [=by large corporations and not individual farmers]

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