inˈdustrialize, v.
[f. as industrial a. + -ize.]
a. trans. To affect with or devote to industrialism; to occupy or organize industrially.
| 1882 [implied at industrialized ppl. a. a] 1886 Pall Mall G. 8 Sept. 4/1 Professor Foxwell..spoke ominously of ‘industrializing’ the villages and making markets near the agriculturists. 1888 [implied at industrialized ppl. a. a] |
b. intr. To become industrial.
| 1965 D. E. C. Eversley in Glass & Eversley Population in Hist. ii. 60 Countries which did not industrialize shared in this process because they began to act as granaries for areas not self-sufficient in food. 1971 Daily Tel. 16 Oct. 10/4 The pace at which it [sc. Australia] is being forced to industrialize is turning large sections of the wide brown land into a polluted wasteland. |
Hence inˈdustrializing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1925 Glasgow Herald 16 Nov. 9 It appears to be the general conclusion that any industrialising schemes apart from the water-power projects cannot succeed. 1959 Daily Tel. 10 Mar. 13/1 Fairly good industrial production increases occurred in new industrialising countries like Pakistan, the Philippines, Formosa and South Korea. 1967 Economist 10 June 1105/3 Rapidly mounting food deficits are one sign of an industrialising society. 1971 A. Shonfield in A. Bullock 20th Cent. 326/1 The end of colonial empires would start a race with the newly industrializing nations in which the Old World would soon be overtaken. |