industrialist

noun

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

Definition of industrialist

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

Examples of industrialist in a Sentence

a meeting of industrialists to discuss environmental issues

Recent Examples on the Web

The painting was one of hundreds that Spain and a nonprofit foundation acquired from Baron Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza to create the museum that now bears the German industrialist’s name. — John Rogers, The Seattle Times, "Spanish museum, California family in court over disputed art," 4 Dec. 2018 Hydropower is the reason U.S. industrialists first began making aluminum in this part of Quebec. — Danielle Bochove, Bloomberg.com, "Trump’s Trade War Looms Over a Canadian Town Built to Supply America," 28 June 2018 Then in 2017, a prominent industrialist secretly taped Mr. Temer appearing to endorse the hush money, prompting the attorney general to press corruption and money laundering charges against him. — Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, "Brazilians Denounce Their Leader, but Economists Offer Praise," 16 Aug. 2018 Americans for Prosperity, the political arm of billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, interviewed Braun but decided not to directly support him. — Brian Slodysko, The Seattle Times, "GOP frets about prospects for picking up Indiana Senate seat," 18 Sep. 2018 And while the tempting narrative here is to pit the billionaire space industrialists against one another in some sort of race to recapture human spaceflight, that framing misses the point entirely. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "The Virgin Galactic Hype Totally Misses the Point," 13 Dec. 2018 Turns out she’s Lady Vernon, the widow of a British industrialist named Sir Michael Vernon—and a crew favorite, due to her naughty wit. — Christopher Bagley, Condé Nast Traveler, "Sailing the South China Sea Is the Best Way to See Southeast Asia," 15 Nov. 2018 Financial naiveté: The industrialist George Westinghouse financed the building of Tesla’s motor and alternating current system, buying Tesla’s patents in exchange for a lucrative royalty agreement. — John F. Wasik, WSJ, "Lessons From Tesla (the Man, Not the Car)," 14 Sep. 2018 Many influential backers of the cause were industrialists, who were at war with a fledgling labor movement dominated by immigrants, the film says. — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, "The Bitter Aftertaste of Prohibition in American History," 9 June 2018

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