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industrial noun

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Definition

a company whose main business is producing goods, or a share in such a company when it is traded on the stock market
He owns a series of industrials across the US and beyond.
Industrials were up 1.2% at the close of trading.
industrials
[plural noun] shares in industrial companies
On Thursday the industrials moved up more than 50 points.

(Definition of industrial noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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