industrials

Noun

industrial (countable and uncountable, plural industrials)

1. (dated, obsolete) An employee in industry.
2. An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
3. A bond or stock issued by such a company.
   • A very short time later a terrible line in a financial daily—"Consols weak"—caught his agitated eye. Consols were precipitately abandoned and a "sound industrial" took their place.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
4. A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.
   • Actor, director, and producer for three decades offers coaching and directing in scenes, improves, cold copy, script analysis, commercials, voice-overs, industrials, film, and stage.2012, Stuart J. Scesney, How to Enter the Business of Commercial Modeling and Acting Without Getting Ripped Off

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