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What is "industrialized"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
industrialized
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an industrial/industrialized nation
▪ The rich industrial nations dominate the global economy.
an industrialized country
▪ America and other industrialized countries
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
country
▪ Growth rates of 3 percent perannum for industrialized countries, and 5.1 percent for industrializing countries, were forecast for the 1990s.
▪ Most economists readily grant that the developing world will grow more rapidly than the already industrialized countries.
▪ These industrialized countries have people with the time and money to travel.
▪ The tragedy is that visible trade with industrialized countries was not favourable.
▪ Saouma called for fair trade terms to allow developing countries to sell their agricultural products to the industrialized countries.
▪ Disposable workers Modern methods of super-exploitation, tried and tested in the Third World, are coming home to industrialized countries.
▪ However, participants denied reports that the four planned to create an alliance modelled after the Group of Seven industrialized countries.
▪ They agreed a 30-point plan calling for industrialized countries to agree to a new fund to support environmental security in the South.
nation
▪ The same thing is happening in industrialized nations.
▪ Fertility in the vast majority of industrialized nations has now dipped to below replacement level.
▪ By 1973, Britain had the lowest growth rate of the major industrialized nations.
society
▪ In the first place, the decline might simply be seen as an inevitable feature of the maturity of any industrialized society.
world
▪ In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world.
▪ But that was only because it had started out as one of the worst in the industrialized world.
▪ In 1973, the industrialized world just got a little more honest and allowed rates to float.
▪ A small portion of this growth will occur in the cities of the industrialized world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an industrialized nation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
industrialized

industrialized \industrialized\ adj. 1. made industrial; converted to industrialism.

Wiktionary
industrialized

  1. Having undergone industrialization alt. Having undergone industrialization v

  2. (en-past of: industrialize)

WordNet
industrialized

adj. made industrial; converted to industrialism; "industrialized areas" [syn: industrialised]

Usage examples of "industrialized".

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.

For example, compared with hunter-gatherers, citizens of modern industrialized states enjoy better medical care, lower risk of death by homicide, and a longer life span, but receive much less social support from friendships and extended families.

Developed by the Confederation’s only pure Communist nation, it was produced in the Lunar city factories and under licence by nearly every industrialized star system.

Louise explained about the planet’s economy being built around the export of Norfolk Tears, about how the founders had wisely chosen a pastoral life for their descendants, about how pretty the cities and towns were, how clean the countryside and the air were compared to industrialized worlds, how nice the people, how well organized the estates, how few criminals there were.

If they ever manage to conquer an industrialized system, they will undoubtedly commit its full potential against us to further their aim.

Phobos and Deimos were heavily industrialized, providing homes for a further half-million workers and their families.

There’s no gas giant in this system, it was colonized long before their presence was deemed necessary to develop an industrialized economy.

A carbosilicon hull mass produced over on Esparta, with power cells and an engine that could have come from any of a dozen industrialized star systems allied to the Kingdom.

The Tyrathca world was not a cradle for the kind of space activity found above industrialized human worlds.

So you see, evolving to an all-private police force was an intrinsic progression for an industrialized society.

Thanks to the enormous productivity of the heavily industrialized Human Corporate Worlds, the expenditure was only an inconvenience, not a disaster.

This, after all, was the most densely populated and heavily industrialized of all the Systems Which Must Be Defended.

But the primary had no less than three inhabited planets, each of them pulsating balefully with the intense energy signature of a heavily industrialized Bug world.

Planets II and III blazed with high energy emissions, bringing the binary system's total to five-easily the most heavily populated and industrialized system in the known galaxy.

It is, quite simply, the most heavily industrialized single planet that any member of the Grand Alliance-including the Star Union-has ever encountered, with a minimum population of something over thirty-five billion.