{
  "id": "industrial.economic",
  "term": "industrial",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "related to large production of material",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "industry.economic",
      "production.manufacturing",
      "large.size"
    ],
    "interaction": "industry.economic drives production.manufacturing",
    "novel_properties": [
      "large production",
      "organized structure"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Ford River Rouge Complex produced 100,000 Model T cars annually by 1925, integrating steel, glass, and assembly under one industrial roof.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Sichuan salt wells in China, operating since the Han Dynasty, used bamboo rigs to extract brine for industrial-scale boiling into salt.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Soviet Magnitogorsk steelworks, built in the 1930s, became a symbol of state-driven industrial production in a planned economy.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "industry.economic",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "relates to main economic activity"
    },
    {
      "id": "production.manufacturing",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "facilitates large‑scale manufacturing"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "industrial",
    "industrials"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-industrial.economic"
}