Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. Having a level of potency, concentration, or durability suitable for industrial tasks, as opposed to merely household tasks.
WordNet
adj. extremely strong or concentrated or durable; "industrial-strength detergent"; "weapons-grade salsa" [syn: weapons-grade]
Usage examples of "industrial-strength".
Her antihistamines must have been industrial-strength, I thought as I waited for her to return to the issue at hand.
A distinctive whine could be heard in the background -- his industrial-strength kiln warming up to imprint three brute-class dittos at a time.
The helium-argon laser, only the size of a large videotape camera but just as powerful as an industrial-strength diamond-cutting laser, didn't cause any pain when the orange-blue beam hit the pilot's eyes.
She inclined her head in acknowledgement, and refused a cup of Mrs Grundy's industrial-strength builder's tea.
And that Nick's kitchen was crying out for a large dose of industrial-strength cleaner.
Here was the X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, for instance, an anonymous grey box which looked like an industrial-strength photocopier, into which ground-up fragments of his rocks were fed in tiny platinum egg cups.
Only _her_ shoes were industrial-strength, high-top basketball jobs with enough home-boy decoration on them to rate her a free pass to a Crips meeting.
A thin waitress with a port-wine stain on her left cheek filled my cup with industrial-strength liquid caffeine, and I filled my mind with a tempest of questions.