单词 | industrialization |
释义 | industrializationn. The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale; the process of industrializing or fact of being industrialized. Also: the conversion of a process into an industry using methods common to large-scale manufacturing; esp. (of building) the adoption of methods such as prefabrication, mechanization, and standardization (cf. industrialized adj. 2). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > [noun] > industrialization or development development1846 industrializing1855 industrialization1892 1892 Times 16 Apr. 8/1 ‘Machinism’..increasing without measure every year, with a corresponding fall in wages by the ‘industrialization’ of the woman and child. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 2/1 A creed..that commends itself to all whom the ‘industrialisation’ of American politics has revolted. 1911 G. H. Mair Eng. Lit.: Mod. ix. 225 If we want a picture of the great fact of modern Scotland, its industrialisation, it is to Galt we must go. 1928 Daily Tel. 20 Mar. 12/6 The present rulers of Russia have staked everything upon the policy of industrialisation under State auspices. 1963 P. Trench in Industrialized Building Syst. & Components Oct. 10/1 It must be some ten years ago that Roger Watters..and I first talked industrialisation. I can't remember who coined the word—it may well have been neither of us... It is now the U word. 1963 P. Trench in Industrialized Building Syst. & Components Oct. 10/2 Industrialisation as a process must cover everything from the use of ready mixed concrete through modular co-ordination to the closed proprietary building system. It is in fact too wide a term to be of real use but since we have no other to describe the change in the nature of building which is going on we must accept it. 1969 Observer 12 Jan. 9/2 Art education is a safeguard against over-organisation, industrialisation, bureaucratisation and dehumanisation. 1969 H. A. Frey tr. T. Schmid & C. Testa Syst. Building 34/2 Industrialization of building in the proper sense, and in contrast to building rationalization, has to do not only with selected operations, but comprises the entire construction process from the planning stage to execution. 1983 L. R. Miller & K. Gilman Horses at Work 10 For many, industrialization and high technology have created a dehumanizing and sometimes unhealthy world. 2010 Independent 17 Aug. (Viewspaper section) 4/3 With industrialisation those villages and paddy fields morphed overnight into city blocks with factories and apartment buildings and fast-food outlets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1892 |
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