: of, relating to, being, or characterized by manufacturing and especially heavy industry
smokestack industries
Examples of smokestack in a Sentence
Adjective
She invested in smokestack stocks.
Car manufacturing and other smokestack industries need to adapt to the global economy.
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Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
Located on the very top deck where the funnel or smokestack would traditionally be, the Funnel Suite is essentially the ship’s penthouse, spanning four floors and 9,975 square feet.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2024
Russ Wiles, azcentral, 2 Aug. 2019
The industry trend toward higher production and profits with lower employment started to run into serious trouble in the 1990s with the imposition of new environmental regulations against smokestack pollution that made coal more expensive to burn.
—Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
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Noun
Locomotives opened land to logging and clearing, which covered landscapes with combustible slash, over which trains scattered sparks from their smokestacks and brakes with abandon.
—Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
Located on the very top deck where the funnel or smokestack would traditionally be, the Funnel Suite is essentially the ship’s penthouse, spanning four floors and 9,975 square feet.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2024
Adjective
Service companies dominate the list of Arizona's largest employers,with relatively few smokestack industries here, which helps explain why Arizona just received another so-so grade as a manufacturing center.
—Russ Wiles, azcentral, 2 Aug. 2019
The industry trend toward higher production and profits with lower employment started to run into serious trouble in the 1990s with the imposition of new environmental regulations against smokestack pollution that made coal more expensive to burn.
—Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
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“Smokestack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smokestack. Accessed 29 Jun. 2024.
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