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industrialist

nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,534 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: industrialists

An industrialist is an owner of large manufacturing businesses. A wealthy industrialist, the great industrialists, an industrialist family.

The word belongs to the age when one person could own a whole industry, and it sounds dated for that reason — modern equivalents are shareholders and executives. Many of the great museums and libraries were founded by industrialists, which is a complicated legacy. Note industry, which once meant diligence.

Definitions of industrialist

  1. 1nounindustrialistAn owner of large manufacturing businesses.C1

    “The wealthy industrialist owned three steel mills and a shipyard.”

industrialist is a business owner.

Where it comes from

  1. French

    industriel

  2. English

    industrial

  3. English, today

    industrialist

From industrial + -ist. industrial comes from French industriel. by surface analysis, industry + -al.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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industrialist in the wild

  • David Davies was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1874 and 1886.

    David Davies (industrialist)

  • John Henry Vivian, father of the first Baron, was an industrialist and politician.

    Baron Swansea

  • Sir James Muir Cameron Fletcher, often known as Jim or JC Junior, was a New Zealand industrialist known for heading Fletcher Construction, one of the country's largest firms.

    James Fletcher Jnr

  • John Kennedy was a Scottish textile industrialist in Manchester.

    John Kennedy (manufacturer)

  • Sir Stanley Paul Chambers, was a British civil servant and industrialist and Chairman of ICI.

    Paul Chambers (industrialist)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the industriel family

industrial

industrialist — used about once every 6,499 pages · #10,534 · point at the bar for the others

  • industry