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industrials

British  
/ ɪnˈdʌstrɪəlz /

plural noun

  1. stocks, shares, and bonds of industrial enterprises

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Advent, a Boston-based firm with more than $90 billion under management, focuses on investments in five main sectors: business and financial services, healthcare, consumer, industrials and technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Wells Fargo recommends stocks in the tech, industrials and financial services sectors as spending on artificial intelligence trickles down into the rest of the economy.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

The Dow industrials have now climbed for five straight sessions, notching three straight records and a 5.3% gain.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Thirteen percent of the S&P 500 index made references to its impact when announcing results, most notably in the financials, technology and industrials sector.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

We have large numbers of men working in trades and professions who never have been naturalized, but we do not dream that all these constitute an alien class of industrials.

From Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates by Helen Kendrick Johnson

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