English
Adjective
industrial strength
- Made for use by businesses, as opposed to at home, and therefore typically larger, stronger 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.
Noun
industrial strength
- Strength or capacity, as related to industry.
#: It was many decades before the war-ravaged country regained its industrial strength.
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