The Collaborative International Dictionary
industrialize \industrialize\ v. t. & i. To make industrial; to develop so that most of the working population is engaged in non-agricultural labor; to develop economically; -- of nations or geographical areas; as, to industrialize underdeveloped nations.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1852, from industrial + -ize, or else from French industrialiser (1842), from Medieval Latin industrialis. Related: Industrialized; industrializing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context of a country English) To develop industry; to become industrial. 2 (context of a process English) To organize along industrial lines.
WordNet
v. organize the production of into an industry; "The Chinese industrialized textile production" [syn: industrialise]
develop industry; become industrial; "The nations of South East Asia will quickly industrialize and catch up with the West" [syn: industrialise]
Usage examples of "industrialize".
Colonel Muammar Baraka who had been harassing the industrialized nations of the world by jacking up the price of their oil, was out of gas.
What he failed to foresee was that the freed Vandal, in lunatic industrialized vengeance, would set out to nail eleven million Christs to the cross.
International trade has always, hitherto, gone hand in hand with war, imperialism and the ruthless exploitation of industrially backward peoples by the highly industrialized powers.
For a while, the insertion of human genes into other animals was banned by most industrialized nations, but the simplicity of the process and the crying need of tattered third world countries for hard currency inevitably resulted in a huge clandestine trade in genetically enhanced pets and altered farm animals.
The Soviet Union consolidated itself and began to industrialize far more rapidly than the Strategic Planning Board had anticipated, and the Draka conquests in western China enabled Japan to quickly overrun and occupy the seaboard provinces.
An expanding, industrializing capitalist society with a state that will, for the first time, be well adapted to that kind of society -- the outcome that Volkov undoubtedly wants -- will absorb the Great Vale into its hinterland.
They were outmanned, and while the North had industrialized, the South was still farming.
Tragically, the overconsumption by the industrialized world, where scientific materialism is most dominant, together with its massive proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, is endangering our very survival as a species, which scientific materialism presents as the central driving force of life itself.
It was the goal of primitive nations, who knew they were the darlings of the technological world only because the needed oil happened to be under their rock and sand, to convert that oil and concomitant political power into more enduring sources of wealth before the earth was drained of the noxious ooze, to which end they were energetically purchasing land all over the world, buying out companies, infiltrating banking systems, and exercising financial control over political figures throughout the industrialized West.
Still targeting their five-cent hamburgers to a working-class clientele in each new market, the partners built most of their Castles in the shadow of a factory, or at least in a heavily industrialized section of the city.
Similar to the food carts of fifty years earlier, most of the new Castles were built within sight of a factory or in an otherwise industrialized area, whereas White Tower built most of its restaurants along the trolley lines frequented by commuting workers.
White immigrants to Australia built a literate, industrialized, politically centralized, democratic state based on metal tools and on food production, all within a century of colonizing a continent where the Aborigines had been living as tribal hunter-gatherers without metal for at least 40,000 years.
These seemingly 'educational' little blocks of connectable fun and happiness have irrevocably brainwashed entire generations of youth from the information-dense industrialized nations into developing mindsets that view the world as unitized, sterile, inorganic, and interchangeably modular-populated by bland limbless creatures with cultishly sweet smiles.
Yet the encyclical denounces, as "unjust," free trade among unequally developed countries, on the grounds that "highly industrialized nations export for the most part manufactured goods, while countries with less developed economies have only food, fibers, and other raw materials to sell.
He would sign America into the African Unity Pact, which the Senate had ratified, he would guarantee continued economic assistance to help industrialize Baraza, if Amboko would be less repressive toward native Communists and the Soviet Union.