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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. of or relating to or resulting from industry;
- Example: "industrial output"

2. having highly developed industries;
- Example: "the industrial revolution"
- Example: "an industrial nation"

3. employed in industry;
- Example: "the industrial classes"
- Example: "industrial work"

4. suitable to stand up to hard wear;
- Example: "industrial carpeting"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Industrial \In*dus"tri*al\, a. [Cf. F. industriel, LL. industrialis. See Industry.] Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights. [1913 Webster] The great ideas of industrial development and economic social amelioration. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster] Industrial exhibition, a public exhibition of the various industrial products of a country, or of various countries. Industrial school, a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; also, a school for educating neglected children, and training them to habits of industry. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

blue-collar \blue-collar\ adj. 1. of or designating work or workers in industry not requiring well-groomed appearance. [Narrower terms: industrial] white-collar [WordNet 1.5] 2. of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers. [Narrower terms: lower-class, low-class] Syn: propertyless, wage-earning, working-class. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

industrial adj 1: of or relating to or resulting from industry; "industrial output" 2: having highly developed industries; "the industrial revolution"; "an industrial nation" [ant: nonindustrial] 3: employed in industry; "the industrial classes"; "industrial work" 4: suitable to stand up to hard wear; "industrial carpeting"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

20 Moby Thesaurus words for "industrial": business, commercial, creational, executional, fabricational, formational, functional, manufacturing, mercantile, merchant, official, pro, productional, professional, retail, technical, trade, trading, vocational, wholesale