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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That tariff was supported by Northern industrialists to protect domestic industry and opposed by Southern agrarians.
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Adam M. Silver, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2025
Populists who preferred a street fighter to a statesman; a domestic industrialist to a free trader; a quasi-isolationist to an internationalist.
—David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2025
Purchased with the financial backing of industrialist Werner von Siemens, the Berlin specimen resides today in the Natural History Museum in Berlin.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
The collection never had any set program, beyond housing Old Master pictures bought by the industrialist Henry Clay Frick with the nudging of the era’s shrewdest tag team: the art historian Bernard Berenson and the dealer Joseph Duveen.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
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Adam M. Silver, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2025
Populists who preferred a street fighter to a statesman; a domestic industrialist to a free trader; a quasi-isolationist to an internationalist.
—David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2025
Purchased with the financial backing of industrialist Werner von Siemens, the Berlin specimen resides today in the Natural History Museum in Berlin.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
The collection never had any set program, beyond housing Old Master pictures bought by the industrialist Henry Clay Frick with the nudging of the era’s shrewdest tag team: the art historian Bernard Berenson and the dealer Joseph Duveen.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
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“Industrialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/industrialist. Accessed 22 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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