industrializev.
/ɪnˈdʌstrɪəlʌɪz/, U.S. /ᵻnˈdəstriəˌlaɪz/ 1. transitive. To make industrial, devote to industrialism; to develop industries in (a country or region) on a wide scale; (also) to exploit industrially.
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society > occupation and work > industry > [verb (transitive)]
industrialize1845
1845 Times 24 Sept. 5/1 Ireland will be conciliated, industrialized, and liberalized altogether, and the Premier will have nothing to do but to make a triumphant progress through the colleges.
1854 H. Hughes Treat. Sociol. ix. 282 Idlers are industrialized. There are no beggars, or vagabonds... All work; none are idle.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Sept. 4/1 Professor Foxwell..spoke ominously of ‘industrializing’ the villages and making markets near the agriculturists.
1912 J. H. Moore Ethics & Educ. 33 Schools should not be industrialized merely, nor commercialized, nor professionalized, but vocationalized.
1938 G. T. Morgan & D. D. Pratt Brit. Chem. Industry xvi. 333 This important discovery was industrialised by Jeyes Ltd.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 June 34/1 They became part of the Plan—the Five-Year Plan, that is—the program to industrialize the Soviet Union at inhuman speed.
2. intransitive. To become industrial; (of a country or region) to build up a system of industries.
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society > occupation and work > industry > [verb (intransitive)]
industrialize1919
1919 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 July 394/1 The question..is not whether or to what extent you shall industrialize, but how.
1965 D. E. C. Eversley in D. V. Glass & D. E. C. Eversley Population in Hist. ii. 60 Countries which did not industrialize shared in this process because they began to act as granaries for areas not self-sufficient in food.
1971 Daily Tel. 16 Oct. 10/4 The pace at which it [sc. Australia] is being forced to industrialize is turning large sections of the wide brown land into a polluted wasteland.
1999 M. Shoard Right to Roam iii. 129 As the first country to industrialize, Britain has lost the links between urban dwellers and the villages from which they came.
Derivatives
inˈdustrializing n. and adj.
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society > occupation and work > industry > [noun] > industrialization or development
development1846
industrializing1855
industrialization1892
society > occupation and work > industry > [adjective] > becoming industrial
industrializing1855
1855 Reasoner 15 July 122/1 The protestantising, the industrialising, of Ireland.
1903 Rev. of Rev. June 577/2 I am glad, by-the-bye, to see ‘Calchas’ shedding his old delusion that M. Witte is creating wealth by his industrialising policy.
1959 Daily Tel. 10 Mar. 13/1 Fairly good industrial production increases occurred in new industrialising countries like Pakistan, the Philippines, Formosa and South Korea.
1996 B. Maidment Reading Pop. Prints ii. 32 The popular prints of the time accepted..that the industrialising of production led to price rises rather than cheapening commodities.
2005 Daily Tel. 17 Feb. 38/2 For years now, prices in the shops have been held down by cheap imports from the industrialising east.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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