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noun
A person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
One who performs or enjoys industrial music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: businessman, man of affairs
Narrower terms: Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie, Cooper, Peter Cooper, Curtiss, Glenn Curtiss, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Daimler, Gottlieb Daimler, Deere, John Deere, Eastman, George Eastman, Ford, Henry Ford, Edsel Bryant Ford, Henry Ford II, Frick, Henry Clay Frick, Gillette, King Camp Gilette, Guggenheim, Meyer Guggenheim, Heinz, Henry John Heinz, Hoover, William Hoover, William Henry Hoover, Hughes, Howard Hughes, Howard Robard Hughes, Krupp, Friedrich Krupp, Land, Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land, Nuffield, William Richard Morris, First Viscount Nuffield, Opel, Wilhelm von Opel, Otis, Elisha Graves Otis, Owen, Robert Owen, Page, Sir Frederick Handley Page, Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, John Davison Rockefeller, Sikorsky, Igor Sikorsky, Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, Solvay, Ernest Solvay
History
Etymology tree English industrial Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English industrialist From industrial + -ist.
Across languages
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
