| industrial arts | a course in the methods of using tools and machinery as taught in secondary schools and technical schools |
industrialization
industrialisation
industrial enterprise | the development of industry on an extensive scale |
| industrial watercourse | a canal that is operated by one or more industries |
| plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |
industrial engineering
industrial management | the branch of engineering that deals with the creation and management of systems that integrate people and materials and energy in productive ways |
applied psychology
industrial psychology | any of several branches of psychology that seek to apply psychological principles to practical problems of education or industry or marketing etc. |
Dow Jones
Dow-Jones Industrial Average | an indicator of stock market prices, based on the share values ofbluehip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing |
| military-industrial complex | a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex--Dwight David Eisenhower |
industrial union
vertical union | a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft |
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
AFL-CIO | the largest federation of North American labor unions, formed in |
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO | a federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in |
industrial bank
industrial loan company | a finance company that makes small loans to industrial workers |
Industrial Workers of the World
IWW
I.W.W. | a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States, founded in Chicago inand dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism, its membership declined after World War I |
| industrial park | a tract of land at a distance from city center that is designed for a cluster of businesses and factories |
| industrial process | a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something |
occupational disease
industrial disease | disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts) |
| industrial air pollution | pollution resulting from an industrial plant discharging pollutants into the atmosphere |
toxic waste
toxic industrial waste | poisonous waste materials, can cause injury (especially by chemical means) |
Industrial Revolution
technological revolution | the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation |
| industrial | suitable to stand up to hard wear, industrial carpeting |
| industrial | having highly developed industries, the industrial revolution, an industrial nation |
industrial-strength
weapons-grade | extremely strong or concentrated or durable, industrial-strength detergent, weapons-grade salsa |
| industrial | employed in industry, the industrial classes, industrial work |
| industrial | of or relating to or resulting from industry, industrial output |