industrialist
English
editEtymology
editFrom industrial + -ist.
Pronunciation
editAudio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editindustrialist (plural industrialists)
- A person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise.
- Hyponyms: captain of industry, magnate, robber baron
- 2004, Douglas Pratt, Doug Pratt's DVD:
- Brian Donlevy is a wealthy industrialist who survives an attempted murder when his wife's boyfriend is killed in a car crash.
- (music) One who performs or enjoys industrial music.
- 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 174:
- 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.
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editTranslations
editperson involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise
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