industrialist
Americannoun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of industrialist
First recorded in 1860–65; industrial + -ist
Example Sentences
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US prosecutors are set to drop charges against billionaire Indian industrialist Gautam Adani, who was accused of paying hundreds of millions of dollars of bribes and hiding the payments, The New York Times reported Thursday.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
These items, all life-size, reflect the taste of a Gilded Age industrialist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Kinloch Castle was built between 1897 and 1900 as a hunting lodge for Lancastrian industrialist George Bullough, who had it luxuriously furnished.
From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025
Farben; and industrialist Günther Quandt, who was also, oddly enough, the former husband of Goebbels' wife Magda.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025
One of them, a white multimillionaire industrialist named Alf Chalmers, offered twelve hundred rands: I purchased a plane ticket.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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