industrialize

Universal Words (BrE also industrialise) verb if a country or an area is industrialized or if it industrializes, industries are developed there: [V] The southern part of the country was slow to industrialize. [also VN] industrialization, industrialisation noun [U]: the rapid industrialization of Japan industrialized, industrialised adjective: an industrialized country * At the end of the 19th century, Britain was the most industrialized society in the world.