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 |
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
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 |
agreement correspondence | compatibility of observations, there was no agreement between theory and measurement, the results of two tests were in correspondence |
agreement arrangement | the thing arranged or agreed to, they made arrangements to meet in Chicago |
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. |
purchase contract purchase agreement | a contract stating the terms of a purchase |
fair-trade agreement | an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer |
articles of agreement shipping articles | a contract between crew and captain of a ship |
labor contract labor agreement collective agreement | contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions |
employment contract employment agreement | contract between employer and employee |
distribution agreement | a contract governing the marketing of an item of merchandise |
licensing agreement | contract giving someone the legal right to use a patent or trademark |
merger agreement acquisition agreement | contract governing the merger of two or more companies |
sale sales agreement | an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer), the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office |
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 |
agreement understanding | the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises, they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business, there was an understanding between management and the workers |
working agreement | an informal agreement to work together |
gentlemen's agreement | a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding |
written agreement | a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties |
agreement | the verbal act of agreeing |
severance agreement | an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave |
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 |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT | a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas |
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 |
agreement concord | the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations |
number agreement | agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify) |
person agreement | agreement in person between pronouns and verbs |
case agreement | agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction |
gender agreement | agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction |
agreement accord | harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters, the two parties were in agreement |
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 |
agreed in agreement(p) | united by being of the same opinion, agreed in their distrust of authority |
industrial | employed in industry, the industrial classes, industrial work |
industrial | of or relating to or resulting from industry, industrial output |