industrialize
[in-duhs-tree-uh-lahyz]
- to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
- to convert to the ideals, methods, aims, etc., of industrialism.
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- to undergo industrialization.
- to follow or espouse industrialism.
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Also especially British, in·dus·tri·al·ise.
Origin of industrialize
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Examples from the Web for industrialized
Contemporary Examples
Canada and the United States are the only industrialized countries that retain birthright citizenship.
Get Ready to Start Hearing About ‘Executive Amnesty for Anchor Babies’Eleanor Clift
November 19, 2014
Good American Future Fund-associated politicians are on the side of industrialized farming.
In a familiar story, the U.S. has no law guaranteeing any paid maternity leave and is the only industrialized nation to do so.
Gatti imported his from Norway; Fussell industrialized the process with plants in Baltimore, New York, Washington, and Boston.
We take more pills than other industrialized countries, and yet we have worse health outcomes.
Historical Examples
That is, you have brought Texcoco and Genoa to an industrialized culture.
AdaptationDallas McCord Reynolds
India does not need to be industrialized in the modern sense of the term.
The Wheel of FortuneMahatma Gandhi
Kellonia had entered the age of industrialized culture, with the large individual owner a disappearing species.
Alarm ClockEverett B. Cole
AIDS impacted on the sense of invulnerability, assumed by individuals in industrialized countries as almost a right.
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
The goal is to enlist all available economic resources in the industrialized Free World-especially private investment capital.
industrialize
industrialise
- (tr) to develop industry on an extensive scale in (a country, region, etc)
- (intr) (of a country, region, etc) to undergo the development of industry on an extensive scale
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Word Origin and History for industrialized
industrialize
v.
1852, from industrial + -ize, or else from French industrialiser (1842), from Medieval Latin industrialis. Related: Industrialized; industrializing.
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