industrial

noun

1

a

: one that is employed in industry

b

: a company engaged in industrial production or service

2

: a stock or bond issued by an industrial corporation or enterprise

Examples of industrial in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Tech may create the order, but old industrials package it up. —Michael Khouw, CNBC, 3 June 2026

On Friday, the S&P 500 added 0.4%, and the Dow industrials climbed 0.6%. —Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 May 2026

Power, grid equipment, cooling, memory, storage, semiconductor equipment, fiber, networking, data center real estate, engineering, select industrials, and certain utilities are no longer just background industries. —Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 21 May 2026

Financial firms like Goldman Sachs and BlackRock, industrials like GE, telecom companies like Qualcomm (though, curiously, not Cisco, whose CEO begged off, citing the company’s earnings release), and Apple, which remains reliant on China despite years of shifting production across Asia. —Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 12 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1831, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Phrases Containing industrial

• agro-industrial
• industrial accident
• industrial action
• industrial archaeology
• industrial arts
• industrial engineering
• industrial estate
• industrial melanism
• industrial park
• industrial psychology
• industrial relations
• industrial revolution
• industrial school
• industrial sociology
• industrial-strength
• industrial union
• military-industrial complex
• pre-industrial
• prison-industrial complex

Rhymes for industrial

• nonindustrial
• postindustrial
• preindustrial

Kids Definition

industrial

adjective

in·​dus·​tri·​al

in-ˈdəs-trē-əl

1

: of, relating to, or engaged in industry

2

: having highly developed industries

an industrial nation

3

: coming from or used in industry

industrial diamonds

industrially

-trē-ə-lē

adverb