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INDUSTRIALIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("industrialist" is a kind of...):
businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))
Instance hyponyms:
Ernest Solvay; Solvay (Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922))
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky; Igor Sikorsky; Sikorsky (United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972))
John D. Rockefeller; John Davison Rockefeller; Rockefeller (United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937))
Page; Sir Frederick Handley Page (English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962))
Owen; Robert Owen (Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858))
Elisha Graves Otis; Otis (United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861))
Opel; Wilhelm von Opel (German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948))
First Viscount Nuffield; Nuffield; William Richard Morris (British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963))
Din Land; Edwin Herbert Land; Land (United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991))
Friedrich Krupp; Krupp (German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826))
Howard Hughes; Howard Robard Hughes; Hughes (United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976))
Hoover; William Henry Hoover; William Hoover (United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932))
Heinz; Henry John Heinz (United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919))
Guggenheim; Meyer Guggenheim (United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905))
Gillette; King Camp Gilette (United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932))
Frick; Henry Clay Frick (United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919))
Ford; Henry Ford II (grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987))
Edsel Bryant Ford; Ford (son of Henry Ford (1893-1943))
Ford; Henry Ford (United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947))
Eastman; George Eastman (United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932))
Deere; John Deere (United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886))
Daimler; Gottlieb Daimler (German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900))
Curtiss; Glenn Curtiss; Glenn Hammond Curtiss (United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930))
Cooper; Peter Cooper (United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York City to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883))
Andrew Carnegie; Carnegie (United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919))
Derivation:
industrialism (an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship)
industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)
