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industrially en · ADV

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɪnˈdʌs.tɹɪ.ə.li/

Etymology

Etymology tree English industrial Middle English -ly English -ly English industrially From industrial + -ly.

Meanings

1. Concerning industry.
   • What Interlune is trying to do [the startup aims to develop robotic lunar mining camps] is far from child’s play. Helium-3, an industrially prized cousin of the isotope of the gas we use to fill party balloons, is rare on Earth. 2025 September 2, Jeremy Bogaisky, “This Startup Is Racing To Be The First To Mine Helium On The Moon”, in Forbes:
   • The steelies were just balls of steel, industrially ugly and not part of most girls' collections. There were four sizes of marbles and we called them boulders, biggies, regulars, and teenies. 2006, Carol Benson, The Old Lonesome, page 84:
   • […] agricultural production is an expensive and inefficient way of keeping the countryside well manicured for the delectation of the weekending or vacationing urban dweller; and the typical methods of subsidizing domestic farm production are very doubtful -- and in Europe largely unknown -- value in terms of promoting social objectives such as reduced income inequality, especially in these days of the stockbroker-landlord and the industrially employed part-time farmer. 1975, Harry G. Johnson, On Economics and Society: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 278:
2. In an industrial manner.

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