/ɛ̃.dys.tʁi.jɛl/
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
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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