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industrialization
[ in-duhs-tree-uh-luh-zey-shuhn ]
noun
- the large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc.
- conversion to the methods, aims, and ideals of industry and economic activity, particularly of an area that was previously underdeveloped economically.
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Other Words From
- anti-in·dustri·al·i·zation noun
- nonin·dustri·al·i·zation noun
- over·in·dustri·al·i·zation noun
- proin·dustri·al·i·zation adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of industrialization1
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Example Sentences
The output of CO2 by industrialization and other human activities—also rising, also measured.
The city was experiencing rapid industrialization, and it was getting smoggy, loud, and crowded.
Why was Tocqueville not more alarmed by the economic power that he saw emerging in the early days of American industrialization?
Old recipes were forgotten, and the quality of meat and produce declined with the industrialization of farming.
The decades after the Civil War brought the industrialization of food production, distribution, and marketing.
Three modifications which have especially affected streams have been agricultural use, urbanization, and industrialization.
The rapid industrialization of the United States had greatly alarmed the old Physiocrat.
This forced industrialization absorbed large amounts of commodities that were formerly available for export to the free world.
Heavy industrialization was imposed on them regardless of their desires and the needs of the people.
That was a breathing spell in the midst of the first big Soviet push toward rapid industrialization.
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