Meaning & use
industrial product
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Meaning
nouncountable
a good made for use in industry, such as machinery, tools, or raw materials, rather than for sale to ordinary people
Grammar: Countable: you can say 'an industrial product' or 'industrial products'. It contrasts with 'consumer product'.
Patterns
- a range of industrial products
- manufacture industrial products
- demand for industrial products
The factory makes industrial products like pumps and valves.
Sales of industrial products rose after the new trade agreement.
Steel is a basic industrial product used in construction.
Word forms
| plural | industrial products |
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Common combinations
- manufacture industrial products
- The company manufactures industrial products for export.
- demand for industrial products
- Demand for industrial products fell during the recession.
- a range of industrial products
- They offer a wide range of industrial products.
- industrial product market
- The industrial product market is highly competitive.
Synonyms and how they differ
- industrial good
- Very similar, but 'industrial goods' is more common in economics and business writing.
- capital good
- A narrower term: a capital good is specifically used to produce other goods, while an industrial product can also be a material or component.
Opposites
Word family
- industry noun
- The sector or business of making things in factories.
- industrialize verb
- To develop industry in a country or region.
- industrialization noun
- The process of building up industry.
Commonly confused: industrial product or industrialized?
industrial product vs industrialized
This adjective describes a place with a lot of industry, not a product.
Practice
Which of these is most likely to be called an industrial product?
Choose one answer.
An industrial product is made for use in industry, like a factory machine. The others are consumer products bought by ordinary people.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “industrial product”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.