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.

(law, India, dated in England & Wales) A tribunal with jurisdiction to hear labour disputes.

disease or disability caused by employment, such as repetitive acts or exposure to chemicals.

Having a level of potency, concentration, or durability suitable for industrial tasks, as opposed to merely household tasks.

The sector of industry that involves the intellectual services: research, development, and information. It is considered the fourth basic industry.

Alternative spelling of preindustrial

plural of industrial disease

the time of the Industrial Revolution

(historical) The major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture.

A process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production.