reindustrialize

especially British, re·in·dus·tri·al·ise

[ree-in-duhs-tree-uh-lahyz]

verb (used with object)

reindustrialized, reindustrializing 

1. to subject to reindustrialization.

verb (used without object)

reindustrialized, reindustrializing 

1. to undergo reindustrialization.

Other Word Forms

• reindustrializer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of reindustrialize¹

re- + industrialize

Example Sentences

But it’s unlikely that Trump’s chaotic tariff moves will reindustrialize the United States in any meaningful way or put men back to work.

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“If we want to return to higher levels of growth and innovation, more broadly distributed prosperity, higher wages, so forth, we’re going to have to get that right,” said Oren Cass, founder and chief economist of the right-leaning think tank American Compass, referring to efforts to reindustrialize the U.S. economy.

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Darrin Kelly, president of the Allegheny/Fayette Central Labor Council, called it the “most significant energy project” in years in a region where many boosters have hoped a natural gas boom would reindustrialize an economy battered by the collapse of coal and steel.

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Among other achievements, Mr. Macron mentioned a significant increase in military spending, the opening of France’s first electric car battery plant — part of his push to reindustrialize the country — and a new water conservation plan to cope with a hotter, drier future.

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“The environmental standards are a challenge for the Brazilian government, which talks about the need to reindustrialize the country,” Leite said.

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