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/ɛ̃.dys.tʁi.jɛl/

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Translation

industrial

Word origin

From industrie plus the adjectival suffix -el. Industrie descends from Latin industria ('diligence, activity').

Origin
Latin
Root
industria
English cognates
industry, industrious

Grammar

Feminineindustrielle
Masc pluralindustriels
Fem pluralindustrielles

Examples

déclin 1980.

The region saw a sharp industrial decline in the 1980s.

emploie .

This industrial estate employs several thousand people.

' boulanger.

Mass-produced bread doesn't taste the same as the baker's.

Also doubles as a noun for the person, not just the sector: is an industrialist, a factory owner. And in everyday speech, often just means mass-produced or processed, as in pain (shop-bought bread) versus a baker's loaf.

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