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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
industrialist
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
leading
▪ One was the Sheffield Pennine Club, whose members were leading industrialists.
▪ Georg Mautner Markhof, 65, a leading industrialist, had announced his resignation as an FPÖ vice-president on Feb. 27.
▪ It was not surprising that leading industrialists and financiers found no more than minor fault with the Tsarist regime.
wealthy
▪ He had apparently been adopted by a wealthy industrialist.
▪ A wealthy industrialist established a foundation to promote his ideas among the rich and powerful.
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▪ As if in a dream, the ghostly images danced in the mind of the 70-year-old industrialist.
▪ Enthusiasts have compared the two men to turn-of-the century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
▪ He had already killed fifteen men - top industrialists and other VIPs.
▪ No industrialist can think in terms of a single market.
▪ The museum was named in honor of her grandfather, Chicago industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse.
▪ This group should include representation from Headteachers, Senior Education Officers and committed industrialists.
▪ What about the fact that £20 billion is supposed to be spent by industrialists?
▪ Which is sort of where baseball fans and industrialists sit today vis-a-vis the Florida Marlins.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
industrialist

1846, from industrial + -ist. Perhaps modeled on French industrialiste (Saint-Simon, 1823). Earlier "one who makes a living by productive industry" (1837).

Wiktionary
industrialist

n. 1 A person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise. 2 One who performs or enjoys industrial music.

WordNet
industrialist

n. someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise

Usage examples of "industrialist".

There was also an industrialist in Norfolk, Virginia, named John Hughes Curtis, head of a boatbuilding company.

Germans, in addition to members of the Nazi Party, participated in and supported murderous actions, accepted race ideology as truth, and contributed--as nurses, engineers, physicians, industrialists, research scientists, land use specialists--to the logistics of concentration, transport, ghettoization, and murder of Jewish adults, children, and infants.

The real interests of the great industrialist or financier lie in cosmopolitan organization and the material development of the world commonweal, but his womenfolk pin flags all over him, and his sons are prepared to sacrifice themselves and all his business creations for the sake of trite splendours and Ruritanian romance.

The industrialist collapsed back into his chair, and Anderson leaned forward on his cane.

The padrino of the wedding was the neighbor of Zack in Carmel, the industrialist Matthew Farrell.

The critical point is that the German industrialists financing Hitler were predominantly directors of cartels with American associations, ownership, participation, or some form of subsidiary connection.

If the Nazi industrialists brought to trial at Nuremburg were guilty of crimes against mankind, then so must be their fellow collaborators in the Ford family, Henry and Edsel Ford.

Farben at this time contained some of the most prestigious names among American industrialists: Edsel B.

That Fokker was the private plane of a German industrialist and was therefore not listed on the scheduled departures.

The demand is for one hundred million guilders from the government, twenty million from Mr David Joseph Karlmann Meijer, the Rotterdam industrialist.

More people were arriving: guild-masters and journeymen, industrialists and engineers, heresiarchs in tall black hats and Scoffers in black suits with broad white collars, their swords on their belts.

Since the egregious Christian Klar was captured - along with two lady friends, Mohnhaupt and Schultz I think they were called - and charged with the murders of diverse politicians, prosecutors, bankers and industrialists, the RAF have pulled in their horns and are reported to have moved into neighbouring countries.

European and American industrialists were sponsoring all manner of totalitarian political groups at that time, including Communists and various Nazi groups.

In brief, within a few weeks of the major funding of Hitler there was a linked sequence of major events: the financial contribution from prominent bankers and industrialists to the 1933 election, burning of the Reichstag, abrogation of constitutional rights, and subsequent seizure of power by the Nazi Party.

Hitler had spoken, Krupp von Bohlen expressed the support of the assembled industrialists and bankers in the concrete form of a three-million-mark political fund.