Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
post-industrial
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
economy
▪ In that sense the development of a post-industrial economy is unconnected to the forces which shaped industrial society.
▪ This is how I helped produce an article on the new post-industrial economy.
▪ In a post-industrial economy a different kind of service economy is emphasized.
▪ So you tell me: Is there a post-industrial economy or not?
▪ Does such a trend signify the arrival of a post-industrial economy?
▪ These groups are considered to represent the key occupations in a post-industrial economy.
society
▪ By and large, the academic community seems content simply to accommodate to the instrumental needs of post-industrial society.
▪ Second and more fundamental: is there nowadays any normal average level of fertility to which post-industrial societies are tending?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Clearly, the post-industrial world is changing attitudes as well as places.
▪ In a post-industrial information economy, the differences become more pronounced and more divisive as the length and necessity of schooling increase.
▪ Second and more fundamental: is there nowadays any normal average level of fertility to which post-industrial societies are tending?
▪ The attempt by residents to develop in their own eyes a post-industrial ethic was not realizable without consequences and contradictions.
▪ This is how I helped produce an article on the new post-industrial economy.
▪ Yes, this is post-industrial noise in the genre of the completely unlistenable Test Department.
▪ You can not, in a post-industrial nation, make more than fitful sense of an early Victorian doctrine of class-war.
Usage examples of "post-industrial".
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Many writers of the post-industrial revolution era were horrified by the depersonalization of the assembly-line factory system and believed it threatened not only the worker's individual rights but the Victorian ideal of the closely knit family.