industrialize

Other spellings

• (UK) industrialise

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /ɪnˈdʌstriəlaɪz/

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• Hyphenation: in‧dus‧tri‧al‧ize

Verb

Plain form industrialize

Third-person singular industrializes

Past tense industrialized

Past participle industrialized

Present participle industrializing

1. (transitive & intransitive) If a place or business industrializes, it adds factories and machines to do work that was previously done by hand or not done at all.

   France was slow to industrialize for most of the Third Republic (1870–1940).

   Farms are getting bigger as farming is beginning to industrialize.

Related words

• industry
• industrial
• industrialist
• industrialization
• industrialized
• industrially