Industrial

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Industrial \In*dus"tri*al\, a. [Cf. F. industriel, LL.
     industrialis. See {Industry}.]
     Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts
     and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor,
     especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and
     rights.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           The great ideas of industrial development and economic
           social amelioration.                     --M. Arnold.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Industrial exhibition}, a public exhibition of the various
        industrial products of a country, or of various countries.
        
  
     {Industrial school}, a school for teaching one or more
        branches of industry; also, a school for educating
        neglected children, and training them to habits of
        industry.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  blue-collar \blue-collar\ adj.
     1. of or designating work or workers in industry not
        requiring well-groomed appearance. [Narrower terms:
        {industrial}] {white-collar}
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. of those who work for wages especially manual or
        industrial laborers. [Narrower terms: {lower-class,
        low-class}]
  
     Syn: propertyless, wage-earning, working-class.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  industrial
       adj 1: of or relating to or resulting from industry; "industrial
              output"
       2: having highly developed industries; "the industrial
          revolution"; "an industrial nation" [ant: {nonindustrial}]
       3: employed in industry; "industrial workers"; "the industrial
          term in use among professional thieves"
       4: employed in industry; "the industrial classes"; "industrial
          work"
       5: suitable to stand up to hard wear; "industrial carpeting"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "industrial":
     business, commercial, creational, executional, fabricational,
     formational, functional, manufacturing, mercantile, merchant,
     official, pro, productional, professional, retail, technical,
     trade, trading, vocational, wholesale