Meanings
adjectiveindustrial strength (not comparable)
- not comparableMade 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.
- not comparableoftenUnusually large or potent.
That's one industrial strength cockroach! I'll need the industrial strength bug spray.
nounindustrial strength (plural industrial strengths)
plural industrial strengths
- Ability or capacity, as related to industry.
It was many decades before the war-ravaged country regained its industrial strength.
Translations
Finnish teollisuus-, teollisuusmittakaavan
- teollisuus-made for business use
- teollisuusmittakaavanmade for business use
- teollinen voimaability or capacity, as related to industry
Polish silnie działający, silne działanie
- silnie działającymade for business use
- silne działanieability or capacity, as related to industry
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“industrial strength.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/industrial%20strength. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “industrial strength,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/industrial%20strength.
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