MEANING
Used for or associated with manufacturing and large-scale production.
Use it for
Manufacturing communities; shift schedules; separation of work and housingLink place character to production and the lives organized around it.
Words that belong together
- industrial district
- industrial estate
- industrial town
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The industrial town ate breakfast according to the factory shifts.
A tram carried workers into the industrial district before dawn.
The old industrial estate now housed repair workshops and small manufacturers.
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Word forms
- Base
- industrial
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Describes economic activity, not necessarily pollution, ugliness, or abandonment. An industrial district may be active and well maintained. Usually non-gradable as a category; heavily industrial describes concentration.
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