industrials
- 1Plural of industrial.
The fund manager shifted heavily into industrials after a strong earnings season.
Industrials outperformed technology stocks during the market recovery.
Note
A plural with several lives, because the singular noun has several. Industrials can be the bonds and stocks of goods-producing companies, the companies themselves, films made for use inside an industry, or industrial piercings. Industrial music, by contrast, is a mass noun and takes no plural. The old use for a worker in industry is obsolete, so industrials meaning factory hands now reads as distinctly old-fashioned.
industrials is a form of industrial
industrial, noun: A company that manufactures physical products or that supplies certain services to other industrial companies. Full entry
- Forms
- industrialindustrials plural
- Spelling
- industrial → industrials: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with industrials, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.