industrial complex

collocation in English

meaningsofindustrialandcomplex

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industrial
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/us
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/
in or related to industry, or having a lot of industry and ...
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complex
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒm.pleks/us
/ˈkɑːm.pleks/
a large building with various connected rooms or a related group ...
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(Definition ofindustrialandcomplexfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is also appealing to theindustrialcomplexfor the reason of coinciding with the practical reality of the so-called engineer pyramid.
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Nor does resistance come solely from the usual suspects in the medical-industrialcomplex.
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Buck provides an excellent overview of the prisonindustrialcomplexand increasingly militaristic law-and-order practices, along with the attendant racist rhetoric that justifies such racist practices to the general public.
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Local shopkeepers and other local suppliers are all part of the revivedindustrialcomplex.
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Of course, if you have a port and anindustrialcomplex, even limited, you must have a new town to support and man these facilities.
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Surely in a largeindustrialcomplexthere should be one consultant with sessional commitments to deal with drug addiction within each district health authority.
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Again, obviously, great refineries are there, and so a greatindustrialcomplexis built up.
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In this area there was one unifying factor, the apparent security of theindustrialcomplexin the southern part of the area.
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There is capacity for 350 prisoners at theindustrialcomplexwithin the prison.
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These people built the greatestindustrialcomplexin the world.
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Now it is apparently proposed to site a vastindustrialcomplexall around about it.
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But statistics are inevitably influenced by such factors as the age structure of a locality and itsindustrialcomplex.
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In his reconstruction he is up against a difficult bureaucracy as well as the militaryindustrialcomplex.
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I am not discounting the idea of storage, but it cannot be done under a majorindustrialcomplex.
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He represented that this vastindustrialcomplexmust be preserved and held together in any new solution which comes about.
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