industrial park
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3.8
- noun
- /ɪnˈdʌstriəl pɑrk/
- US
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parque industrial
- The industrial park includes facilities for manufacturing and logistics companies.
- build an industrial park
It builds residential townships, commercial centers and industrial parks.
- It builds residential townships, commercial centers and industrial parks.
- It was a mild loop at this industrial park, and I was like, OK, cool.
Examples
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"The highway is full today, and over at the industrial park, they have the framework up for the new building."
Fiction book (1994) -
The bulk of the off-site work is land clearing for new homes, roads, and industrial parks.
Academic text (1997) -
Pretty soon, this whole place... is gonna be an industrial park.
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"Beyond the highway is the new industrial park."
Fiction book (1994) -
It's an industrial park near the harbor.
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Singapore will also consider building additional industrial parks after completing the Suzhou project.
Academic text (1996) -
The most recent trend in Singapore's investment practices has been to build large townships or industrial parks.
Academic text (1996) -
Now, port facilities, satellite cities, and suburban industrial parks are being linked by highways to form a Western pattern of dispersed industrial zones.
Academic text (1993) -
The regions around Changwon, Masan, and Busan, home to the country's major export zones and industrial parks, were hit particularly hard.
Academic text (2018) -
The city council approved plans for a new industrial park to attract more businesses.
How Built-up
Surface Forms
Morphology
industrial + park
The compound is directly compositional: 'industrial' (relating to industry) modifies 'park' (an area of land), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it means an area for industrial activity. This noun-noun pattern (e.g. business park, science park) is common cross-linguistically and follows regular English compounding, making the meaning predictable.
Etymology
Industrial park combines industrial for factories and park for a planned, separate area; imagine a park with factories and warehouses instead of trees. That's why it means 'an area planned for factories and businesses, often outside the city'.