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industrial strength en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Made for use by businesses or manufacturers, as opposed to home consumers, and therefore typically larger, stronger, more difficult to operate, and less attractive in appearance.
   • The office was now large enough to need an industrial strength vacuum cleaner.
2. (not-comparable, often, used whimsically) Unusually large or potent.
   • That's one industrial strength cockroach! I'll need the industrial strength bug spray.

Relateds

industrial-grade

Translations (3)

fi teollisuus- (made for business use) · fi teollisuusmittakaavan (made for business use) · pl silnie działający (made for business use)

industrial strength en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Ability or capacity, as related to industry.
   • It was many decades before the war-ravaged country regained its industrial strength.

Forms

Translations (2)

pl silne działanie (ability or capacity, as related to industry) · fi teollinen voima (ability or capacity, as related to industry)