industrialize
verb (used with object)
to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
industrializing
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present participleof industrialize.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Factories in the industrializing North churned out munitions in volumes the agrarian South couldn’t touch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
"We're industrializing an easier way of forming sheet metal based on origami," says chief executive and co-founder, Jonas Nyvang.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Like West Africa, El Salvador is a past source country for the production of rubber, essential to an industrializing Europe’s historic colonizing abroad.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024
When historians search for parallels, they often point to the period before the Civil War, when an industrializing North and an agrarian South were divided over slavery.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
This is a point to which, along with other general questions connected with the industrializing of China, I shall return in my last chapter.
From The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell
