industrialize
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change- IPA (key): /ɪnˈdʌstriəlaɪz/
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- (transitive & intransitive) If a place or business industrializes, it adds factories and machines to do work that was previously done by hand or not done at all.
- France was slow to industrialize for most of the Third Republic (1870–1940).
- Farms are getting bigger as farming is beginning to industrialize.