Definition of industrialist
:one owning or engaged in the management of an industry :manufacturer
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His new neighborhood contains grave sites of architects Mies van der Rohe and Daniel Burnham, industrialists George Pullman and Cyrus McCormick, Marshall Field and so many others.
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The Unionville Museum has begun a months-long celebration of that connection, marking 100 years since the construction of Unionville's West End Library, made possible by a grant from famed Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie.
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In 1891, Middletown industrialist Paul J. Sorg built the opera house, then a common term for theaters in the heartland.
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But by the late 1880s, just 20 years after Davis’s account, the distinctly unnatural forces of rifle-wielding white settlers, industrialists and cattle ranchers had nearly driven the bison to extinction.
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Americans for Prosperity is one of the flagship organizations of the political network seeded by Charles and David Koch, the conservative, libertarian billionaire industrialists.
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Sharif, son of an industrialist serving his third term in power, has had a fractious relationship with the army.
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Again commissioned by a wealthy industrialist, the mansion lacks the whimsy and playfulness of some of his later works, with parts of the mansion seeming downright gothic and cathedral-like (religious services were once held in the palace).
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Griffin appeared on the final day of a three-day conclave at a luxury resort in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains that attracted more than 400 conservative donors to the network founded by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.
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First Known Use of industrialist
1839
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