Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who owns, directs, or has a substantial financial interest in an industrial enterprise.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Marked by the influence of industrialism; characterized by industry.

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  • noun A person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise

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Examples

  • An American industrialist is not invited to Jack Welch's GE seminar on competition.

    Sen. Fritz Hollings: U.S. Is in a Trade War, Whether It Likes It or Not Sen. Fritz Hollings 2010

  • An American industrialist is not invited to Jack Welch's GE seminar on competition.

    Sen. Fritz Hollings: U.S. Is in a Trade War, Whether It Likes It or Not Sen. Fritz Hollings 2010

  • It started when I heard that a certain industrialist was being considered by the editorial board of a large and influential magazine as being a possible profile subject for that magazine.

    The Problem of Stuffed Shirtism 1957

  • His policy as an industrialist is one of co-operation and the results from such a policy where the individual, the industry and the community are all recognized will be best for all concerned.

    Conditions in Great Britain and America 1936

  • The Economics Prize is the only one of the six Nobel prizes not created in Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's 1896 will.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • The Economics Prize is the only one of the six Nobel prizes not created in Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's 1896 will.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • A few years ago I was at a luncheon party of industrialists and business men somewhere in the north of England and some great industrialist from the English Midlands came to address the company about our future prospects, and he said at the beginning of his talk that he was going to limit the scope of his talk and define it as the prospects for the north-east for 1957 and he added, turning to me, "I confined myself to 1957 because if I wandered on beyond 1957 I might be encroaching on eternity and I understand that eternity is the prerogative of the Archbishop."

    Personal Responsibility and Interdependence 1963

  • Roebling the industrialist was the man Trenton people knew.

    The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

  • Betty used to regale her friends with stories of her "industrialist" father and affluent mother, growing up in Highland Park, Illinois outside Chicago.

    Jim Luce: Memorial for Social Activist Betty Millard (1911-2010) 2010

  • In a quiet and surprising transaction in the late summer of 2009, Mr. Sitt sold it to a Spanish businessman, a mysterious self-described "industrialist," for nearly $25 million, according to The Real Deal.

    From Second Empire to Second Chance 2010

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