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industrialize

B2 Topic:Actions & Processes
US /ɪnˈdʌstɹiəlaɪz/
Freq #148571

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    To develop industries and factories in a country or area.

    The government worked hard to industrialize the rural north.

  2. 2
    verb

    To organize the production of something on a large, factory-based scale.

    They found a way to industrialize the once handmade product.

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Opposites
deindustrialize
Word family
Forms industrializedindustrializesindustrializing
Derived forms agroindustrializeindustrializableindustrializationindustrializeroverindustrializereindustrialize

Etymology

Borrowed from French industrialiser.

industrialiser French
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