industrializedadj.
/ɪnˈdʌstrɪəlʌɪzd/, U.S. /ᵻnˈdəstriəˌlaɪzd/ 1. That has become industrial; (of a country or region) that has developed industries on a wide scale.
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industrialized1882
1882 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 736 Our modern desecrated and industrialised England.
1888 New Princeton Rev. May 328 Contempt of civilians, patronage of ‘trades-people’, survive from the middle-age..with a persistence that strikes our industrialized sense as puerile.
1918 T. Maynard Carven from Laurel Tree 66 Most men in our industrialised society would consider economic or even political freedom a small matter when set besides the certainty of regular employment, and a steady supply of beef, bread-and-butter and beer.
1936 B. H. Williams Amer. Diplomacy xviii. 338 The acute need of a corrective..to the alarming increase in facilities for mass slaughter has become impressively apparent only with the development of industrialized warfare.
1985 Guardian 22 Feb. 11/7 Our whole industrialised agricultural system for the ‘manufacture’ of meat could be completely transformed by the end of the century.
2005 Food & Trav. Feb. 67/1 In an age when industrialised nations are longing for a return to natural, fresh, unmucked-about-with food, Tasmania has become a kind of earthly paradise.
2. Of building: carried out using industrial methods such as prefabrication, mechanization, and standardization. Hence also of an individual building: built in accordance with such methods.
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1930 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 78 1105 The mere conditions of work on industrialised building are inimical to the individual sculptor, the responsible and independent workman, the artist.
1938 Amer. Home Jan. 32/2 Building homes as durable (if not more so, because of the benefits of industrialized construction) as those of their ancestors, the Ohio home owners nevertheless have sensed that some form of classic domestic architecture suits their social conditions and landscape best.
1963 Daily Tel. 2 May 14 The suggestion is that spare shipbuilding capacity should be turned over to the manufacture of component parts for industrialised housing.
1963 Industrialised Building Syst. & Components Oct. 5 Industrialised building is not the mere substitution of prefabrication for traditional methods or the adoption of ‘systems’. We see it as the application of modern industrial methods to the planning and execution of construction projects.
1976 Financial Times 2 Feb. 19/8 Industrialised modular buildings developed by a Belgian company rely on an ingenious lightweight panelling arrangement.
2002 J. Kvorning in P. Madsen & R. Plunz Urban Lifeworld iv. 125 Soon after their construction, some of the big industrialized apartment blocks began to collect the weakest members of society.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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