Definition of industrialist
: one owning or engaged in the management of an industry : manufacturer
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a meeting of industrialists to discuss environmental issues
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By 1996, all seven of the tobacco industrialists had left the business in response to the probe.
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Expert climbers who have scaled Mount Everest will come to town to speak with San Francisco industrialists.
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These bipartisan reforms were supported by Governor John Bel Edwards, a centrist Democrat, and by conservative voices including the Louisiana Family Forum and Charles and David Koch, deep-pocketed industrialists.
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The Henry Crown Fellowship Program was established in 1997 to honor the life and career of Chicago industrialist Henry Crown (1896-1990) and was initially funded by the Henry and Gladys Crown Charitable Trust Fund.
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The film was terrific and Mr. Plummer (who replaced Kevin Spacey) was magnificent as J. Paul Getty, the filthy-rich industrialist grandfather of the victim.
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Isabelle Huppert plays Anne Laurent, the de facto head of an industrialist family in the northern French city of Calais.
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All three candidates participated in a Feb. 20 debate sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a grassroots arm of the political network affiliated with billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.
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Banker and industrialist Andrew Mellon, America’s third-richest man a century ago, moved to Washington in 1921.
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First Known Use of industrialist
1839
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: someone who owns or manages an industry
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: a person who owns or engages in the management of an industry
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