industrialise

Other spellings

• (US) industrialize

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /ɪnˈdʌstriəlaɪz/

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• Hyphenation: in‧dus‧tri‧al‧ise

Verb

Plain form industrialise

Third-person singular industrialises

Past tense industrialised

Past participle industrialised

Present participle industrialising

1. (transitive & intransitive) If a place or business industrialises, it adds factories and machines to do work that was previously done by hand or not done at all.

   France was slow to industrialise for most of the Third Republic (1870–1940).

   Farms are getting bigger as farming is beginning to industrialise.

Related words

• industry
• industrial
• industrialist
• industrialisation
• industrialised
• industrially