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industrialization

[ in-duhs-tree-uh-luh-zey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc.
  2. 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 Word Forms

  • anti-in·dustri·al·i·zation noun
  • nonin·dustri·al·i·zation noun
  • over·in·dustri·al·i·zation noun
  • proin·dustri·al·i·zation adjective
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Word History and Origins

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Example Sentences

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They reflected the importation of capital goods that fed into America’s rapid industrialization a century ago.

Vladimir Lenin fetishized technology, insisting that industrialization and electrification would lead to the idealized future of a truly communist society.

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But industrialization has changed that, of course, by introducing light pollution that gradually erased the stars from view before the bright blue light of countless LEDs made the situation so much worse.

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C higher than the temperatures on earth just before the start of industrialization a couple of hundred years ago.

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The forces of privatization and industrialization swept through England, as Enclosure Acts transformed common lands into private property, barring access for the poor.

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