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regional note: in AM, usually use preindustrialadjective [ADJECTIVE noun]Pre-industrial refers to the time before machines were introduced to produce goods on a large scale. ...the transition from pre-industrial to industrial society. Examples of 'pre-industrial' in a sentencepre-industrial In pre-industrial societies, magical thinking was institutionalised.The same pre-industrial tools are used that once built timber-framed houses, furniture and ships.This pre-industrial warehouse couldn't be better suited for our era of huge installations.Much of the pre-industrial economy depended on wood, whether for shipbuilding, fuel or construction.Carbon dioxide is now about 30 percent above the pre-industrial level.It was a collective - an undemarcated environment that was very pre-industrial.Aren't they also obsolete, a relic of a pre-industrial age?Gilead may venerate the pre-industrial but it is also a modern, moneyed and practical republic.But the fact that her keel was riddled with superfluous tree-nail (pre-industrial rivets) holes fatally weakened her. |