industrialist noun2 •A person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise.Brian Donlevy is a wealthy industrialist who survives an attempted murder when his wife's boyfriend is killed in a car crash. — 2004 •One who performs or enjoys industrial music.Like a lot of second-wave industrialists, Skinny Puppy's attraction to rhythm wasn't consciously political, but based in the pleasure of making and moving to a beat; Key was, after all, a drummer. — 2013 formsindustrialists