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.

Other Word Forms

• anti-industrialization noun
• nonindustrialization noun
• overindustrialization noun
• proindustrialization adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of industrialization¹

industrialize + -ation

Example Sentences

Then came decades filled with social change, the lost Mexican-American War, human expansion into the Valley, and industrialization.

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High tariffs would protect nascent industrialization and increase federal revenue.

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The nation grew and became increasingly industrial, but many eggs were broken to make the omelet, in the manner of Stalin’s forced industrialization of Russia.

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This was the Gilded Age, when the United States had entered a new era of industrialization that created an unprecedented class of millionaires — and left many people on the sidelines.

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Repeatedly returning to themes of globalization and alienation, the 55-year-old director has meticulously chronicled his country’s uneasy plunge into the 21st century as rampant industrialization risks deadening those left behind.

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