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industrial commission
industrial democracy
industrial design
industrial diamond
industrial disease
industrial engineering
industrial espionage
industrial estate
industrial inertia
industrial location
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industrial inertia
in·dus·tri·al in·er·tia


noun 
Definition:
 
reluctance to relocate: the refusal of a company to leave its original location even when the reasons that made the location suitable or advantageous have disappeared
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