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proto-industrial
proto-industrial adj.
Brit. 
/ˌprəʊtəʊɪnˈdʌstrɪəl/
, /ˌprəʊtəʊɪnˈdʌstrɪəl/U.S. /ˌproʊdoʊᵻnˈdəstriəl/
of or designating a society or economy based on rural or cottage industries producing goods for external markets, considered as a precursor of industrialization./ˌproʊdoʊᵻnˈdəstriəl/ΚΠ
1955 Far Eastern Q. 14 470 All of them [sc. agrarian civilizations] perpetuated themselves for many centuries..without evolving, through their own inner forces, a proto-industrial or industrial society.
1997 Éire–Ireland Spring 87 By the mid-1840s the proto-industrial sectors of the economy had largely collapsed in most of Ireland.
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