industrial

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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; "the industrial classes"; "industrial
       work"
    4: suitable to stand up to hard wear; "industrial carpeting"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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