(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.
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