industrialize
verb (used with object)
to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
unindustrialized
-
a word derived from
industrialize.
Example Sentences
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Most Americans, however, would have envisioned such a staggering act as happening overseas in an unindustrialized, undemocratic backwater or similar setting — definitely not in the citadel of U.S. democracy — the U.S.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2021
While the game takes place in an unindustrialized quasi-wilderness, it still somehow encourages unsustainable practices and untenable consumerist values.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2017
And though America has industrialized and then unindustrialized, agriculture remains a great constant of our economy.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2012
And as long as Latin America remained unindustrialized, it could not play a leading role on the world economic stage.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
"If we look at the spread of industrial civilization throughout the world, we find that its chief cause was the overwhelming military superiority of the industrialized over unindustrialized states."
From Time Magazine Archive
