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 |
society | an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization |
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 |
Tammany Hall Tammany Society Tammany | a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 's and early 's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism |
Hare Krishna International Society for Krishna Consciousness ISKCON | a religious sect founded in the United States in , based on Vedic scriptures, groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna, devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy |
Society of Jesus Jesuit order | a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen, it is strongly committed to education and scholarship |
Religious Society of Friends Society of Friends Quakers | a Christian sect founded by George Fox about , commonly called Quakers |
Shakers United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing | a celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States |
club social club society guild gild lodge order | a formal association of people with similar interests, he joined a golf club, they formed a small lunch society, men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today |
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 |
secret society | a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers |
Fabian Society | an association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism |
academy honorary society | an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature |
Royal Society Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge | an honorary English society (formalized inand given a royal charter by Charles II in ) through which the British government has supported science |
open society | a society that allows its members considerable freedom (as in a democracy), America's open society has made it an easy target for terrorists |
tribal society | a society with the social organization of a tribe |
hunting and gathering tribe hunting and gathering society | group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables, usually nomadic |
society high society beau monde smart set bon ton | the fashionable elite |
industrial bank industrial loan company | a finance company that makes small loans to industrial workers |
building society | British equivalent of United States savings and loan association |
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 |
Society Islands | an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa |
industrial process | a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something |
company companionship fellowship society | the state of being with someone, he missed their company, he enjoyed the society of his friends |
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 |
provident | providing carefully for the future, wild squirrels are provident, a provident father plans for his children's education |
provident | careful in regard to your own interests, the prudent use and development of resources, wild squirrels are provident |
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 |