reindustrializev.
/ˌriːɪnˈdʌstrɪəlʌɪz/, U.S. /riᵻnˈdəstriəˌlaɪz/ transitive. To industrialize again or further; to revitalize the industry of (a country or region). Also intransitive: to undergo reindustrialization.In quot. 1922: to retrain (a person) for work in industry.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > [verb (intransitive)] > renew industrializing process
reindustrialize1922
society > occupation and work > industry > [verb (transitive)] > reverse or renew industrializing process
de-industrialize1882
reindustrialize1922
1922 N.Y. Times 10 Feb. 10/1 The effort to reindustrialize the former soldier does not seem to be making the progress it should.
1940 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 15 June 1/1 Our military men..assert that it will take him [sc. Hitler] several years..to re-industrialize them [sc. the conquered countries].
1945 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 12 June 2/4 If Germany is never again permitted to reindustrialize.
1948 M. Berry Party Choice vi. 100 [Development in the Colonies] is not a similar problem to building satellite towns or reindustrialising the depressed areas of Britain.
1983 Business Week 29 Aug. 37/1 The ‘third way’ [is] an attempt to reindustrialize without the disruptions of the free-market policies of..Reagan or the inflationary expansionism of..Mitterand.
2000 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon x. 157 With that money they can buy the things they'd like to have, and buy the tools to build the things they can make on their own. This will re-industrialize their country.
Derivatives
reinˈdustrializer n. a person who advocates, or is involved in, reindustrialization.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > enthusiast for technology > [noun] > one who industrializes again
reindustrializer1980
1980 N.Y. Times 4 Aug. a21/4 A number of reindustrializers urge an intensified emphasis on exports.
2000 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 27 June (Capital Region section) f3 The bulk of his letter seems to indicate that Mr. Dunlea has prejudged this project as a polluter and ‘reindustrializer’ of the Hudson River Valley.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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