industrialist
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5.7
- noun
- /ɪnˈdʌstriəlɪst/
- US
:
industrial
- She admired her father's achievements as a successful industrialist in the textile industry.
- Brazilian industrialists
- German industrialists
- new industrialists
We're getting venture backing from an East Coast industrialist.
- We're getting venture backing from an East Coast industrialist.
- Well, then you're that is exactly what a certain group of military industrialists would love to perhaps have happen.
- So I was taking part in a tournament and I met a German industrialist.
- That person gets exactly the same amount of time as the most productive industrialist in the world.
Examples
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While a guest at the home of a wealthy industrialist, Madeline learned that her host had been threatened.
Fiction book (2001) -
The estate was created by Lord Armstrong, a Victorian industrialist, who also restored Bamburgh Castle.
Academic text (1999) -
So, you know, being a good US industrialist, what do you do?
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That person gets exactly the same amount of time as the most productive industrialist in the world.
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-The big business dinner tonight... ...is for this Japanese industrialist new client of ours.
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Her father was one of the first big industrialists to join the party.
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Although he's never been here, the industrialist comes in like he owns the place.
Fiction book (1993) -
"We're talking to industrialists, looking into getting private funding for the project."
Fiction book (1995) -
He's a leading French industrialist.
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Mr Osato is one of our greatest industrialists.
Synonyms
715
3.1
A person or company who gives money to a business to try to make money
332
2.0
A man who works in business, often owning or running a company
305
6.9
A person who starts a business and risks their own money to earn money
22
7.9
A very rich and powerful person who owns or runs large businesses
1
7.2
A person who starts and runs a business and risks money to earn money
A person who owns or runs a factory that makes goods
A person who owns or runs a factory where iron is made
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Morphology
industrialist = industrial (transparent) = industry + al + ist
Formed by the adjective 'industrial' + agentive suffix '-ist'; this is a regular and productive derivation that clearly denotes a person associated with industry.
Etymology
The word industrialist comes from industry ('factories' or 'manufacturing') and the ending -ist ('person who does or supports something'), so an industrialist is someone who owns, runs, or invests in industry, for example a factory owner or manager.