industrialist

Etymology

industrial + -ist

noun

  1. A person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise.
    Brian Donlevy is a wealthy industrialist who survives an attempted murder when his wife's boyfriend is killed in a car crash. 2004, Douglas Pratt, Doug Pratt's DVD
  2. (music) One who performs or enjoys industrial music.
    Like a lot of second-wave industrialists, Skinny Puppy's attraction to rhythm wasn't consciously political, but based in the pleasure of making and moving to a beat; Key was, after all, a drummer. 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 174

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