industrialist

English

Etymology

From industrial +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

industrialist (plural industrialists)

1. 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.

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.

Related terms

• industrialism

 

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 Hindi: उद्योगपति m or f (udyogapti) Japanese: 実業家 (ja) (じつぎょうか, jitsugyōka) Marathi: उद्योगपती m (udyogaptī) 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)

See also

• capitalist
• C-suite
• executive