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industrialist

industrialist noun: a person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise.

Noun

industrialist (plural industrialists)

  1. A person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise.
    • Brian Donlevy is a wealthy industrialist who survives an attempted murder when his wife's boyfriend is killed in a car crash.2004, Douglas Pratt, Doug Pratt's DVD
  2. One who performs or enjoys industrial music.
    • Like a lot of second-wave industrialists, Skinny Puppy's attraction to rhythm wasn't consciously political, but based in the pleasure of making and moving to a beat; Key was, after all, a drummer.2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 174

industrialist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

industrialist in Hindi

person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise
उद्योगपति udyogapti

industrialist in Tamil

தொழிலதிபர்

industrialist in Marathi

person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise
उद्योगपती udyogaptī

industrialist in Urdu

صنعت گر, صنعت کار
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industrialist in Telugu
పారిశ్రామికవేత్త pāriśrāmikavētta
industrialist in Malayalam
വ്യവസായി, വ്യവസായികൻ, ഉൽപാദകൻ, നിർമ്മാതാവ്
industrialist in Kannada
ಕೈಗಾರಿಕೋದ್ಯಮಿ, ಉದ್ದಿಮೆದಾರ, ಉದ್ಯಮ ತಜ್ಞ
industrialist in Gujarati
ઉદ્યોગપતિ udyogapti
industrialist in Tagalog
mangangalalang
industrialist in Persian
صنعتگر san'at-gar

Examples of industrialist in a sentence

  • Niklaus Gerber was a Swiss dairy chemist and industrialist.
  • The Progressives were of the educated middle class, angry at the rule of parvenu financiers and industrialists.
  • Francisco Pignatari, a wealthy Brazilian industrialist and onetime international playboy, died today in a São Paulo hospital.

All 13 example sentences with industrialist

Forms of industrialist

pluralindustrialists

Plural of industrialist: industrialists

Origin of industrialist

From industrial + -ist.

Questions about industrialist

What does industrialist mean?
Industrialist means a person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise.
What is industrialist in Hindi?
Industrialist in Hindi is उद्योगपति (udyogapti). See Industrialist meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is industrialist?
Industrialist is a noun.
What is the plural of industrialist?
The plural of industrialist is industrialists.

Words near industrialist in the dictionary

  1. industrialisers
  2. industrialises
  3. industrialising
  4. industrialism
  5. industrialisms
  6. industrialist
  7. industrialists
  8. industrializable
  9. industrialization
  10. industrializations
  11. industrialize

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: industrialist (page history and authors); industrialist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); industrialist (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); industrialist (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); industrialist (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ઉદ્યોગપતિ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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