industrialist
noun
in·dus·tri·al·ist
in-ˈdə-strē-ə-list 
: one owning or engaged in the management of an industry : manufacturer
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a meeting of industrialists to discuss environmental issues
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The former textile factory where German industrialist Oskar Schindler employed and protected 1,200 Jews during the last years of World War II opened this past weekend as a museum dedicated to the stories and memories of survivors of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025
Built in 1950 for industrialist Leo Harvey, the midcentury marvel is one of Lautner’s early masterpieces—featuring a circular wooden courtyard, sweeping stone floors, and floor-to-ceiling glass that blurs the lines between indoors and out.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2025
Elon Musk will go down as a tragic figure of the Trump era—an actual industrialist visionary whose singular genius could have been used for something positive, rather than just firing a bunch of low-level bureaucrats and presiding over the brand destruction of a great American company.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Because import duties raised the prices of everyday goods while protecting the industrialist class, ordinary Americans rightly came to associate the tariff with rising inequality and with the gross concentrations of wealth that typified the first Gilded Age—and now plague our own.
— Made By History, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025
Built in 1950 for industrialist Leo Harvey, the midcentury marvel is one of Lautner’s early masterpieces—featuring a circular wooden courtyard, sweeping stone floors, and floor-to-ceiling glass that blurs the lines between indoors and out.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2025
Elon Musk will go down as a tragic figure of the Trump era—an actual industrialist visionary whose singular genius could have been used for something positive, rather than just firing a bunch of low-level bureaucrats and presiding over the brand destruction of a great American company.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Because import duties raised the prices of everyday goods while protecting the industrialist class, ordinary Americans rightly came to associate the tariff with rising inequality and with the gross concentrations of wealth that typified the first Gilded Age—and now plague our own.
— Made By History, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Industrialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/industrialist. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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industrialist
noun
in·dus·tri·al·ist
in-ˈdəs-trē-ə-ləst
: an owner or manager of an industry : manufacturer
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