industrialist

English

Etymology

industrial +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

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Noun

industrialist (plural industrialists)

1. A person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise.
   • 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.

2. (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.

Translations

person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise

• Catalan: industrialista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 實業家／实业家 (zh) (shíyèjiā)

• Czech: průmyslník (cs) m
• Finnish: teollisuudenharjoittaja
• French: industriel (fr) m
• German: Industrieller (de) m
• Japanese: 実業家 (ja) (じつぎょうか, jitsugyōka)
• Persian: صنعت‌گر (san'at-gar)
• Polish: przemysłowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: industrial (pt) m or f
• Russian: промы́шленник (ru) m (promýšlennik), промы́шленница (ru) f (promýšlennica), предпринима́тель (ru) m (predprinimátelʹ), предпринима́тельница (ru) f (predprinimátelʹnica)
• Spanish: industrialista m
• Tagalog: mangangalalang
• Telugu: పారిశ్రామికవేత్త (pāriśrāmikavētta)
• Turkish: sanayici (tr)