industrialist

noun in·dus·tri·al·ist \ in-ˈdə-strē-ə-list \

|Updated on: 22 Jun 2018

Examples: industrialist in a Sentence

Definition of industrialist

: one owning or engaged in the management of an industry : manufacturer

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Examples of industrialist in a Sentence

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Recent Examples of industrialist from the Web

Montealegre was raised in Chile; her mother was Costa Rican and Catholic; her father, an American Jew, was a wealthy industrialist.

— david denby, The New Yorker, "Leonard Bernstein Through His Daughter’s Eyes," 16 June 2018
Basketball was already a widely popular game when this historic house was built in 1924 for industrialist Stanley C.E. Smith, who owned Smith and Valley Iron Works Co., which made logging machinery.

— janet eastman, OregonLive.com, "Ex-Trail Blazer Rasheed Wallace sells $3 million mansion seen on 'Cribs' (photos)," 11 June 2018
In time, industrialists changed their minds on Prohibition, finding their workers were no less drunk at work than before.

— roger catlin, Smithsonian, "The Bitter Aftertaste of Prohibition in American History," 9 June 2018
At the Geneva Motor Show in 1971, an Italian industrialist named Ferruccio Lamborghini unveiled a new sports car his company hoped to build.

— sam walker, WSJ, "In Chasing Perfection, Ferruccio Lamborghini Took the Fast Lane," 31 May 2018
Rockefeller, who died last year at 101, was the last surviving grandson of industrialist John D. Rockefeller who consolidated the American petroleum industry and founded the Standard Oil Company and became one of America's first billionaires.

— NBC News, "Massive Rockefeller family art auction opens with $646 million haul," 9 May 2018
Flagler, an industrialist, built the 75-room, 100,000-square-foot mansion, Whitehall, for his third wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler.

— skyler swisher, Sun-Sentinel.com, "Melania Trump, Akie Abe visit Flagler Museum," 18 Apr. 2018
During the global financial crisis, television showed Putin bullying industrialists to reopen shuttered plants and scolding retailers about the price of sausages.

— daniel treisman, Washington Post, "How Putin’s regime is both authoritarian and incompetent," 14 Mar. 2018
Some in India fear similar working conditions are in store for them as well if factories and industrialists are left to run amok.

— adam matthews, Newsweek, "The Environmental Crisis in Your Closet," 13 Aug. 2015

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