industrial strength
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See also: industrial-strength
English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
industrial strength (not comparable)
- 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.
- The office was now large enough to need an industrial strength vacuum cleaner.
- (often used whimsically) Unusually large or potent.
- That's one industrial strength cockroach! I'll need the industrial strength bug spray.
Translations[edit]
made for business use
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Noun[edit]
industrial strength (plural industrial strengths)
- Ability or capacity, as related to industry.
- It was many decades before the war-ravaged country regained its industrial strength.