industrialization

noun

in·​dus·​tri·​al·​i·​za·​tion in-ˌdə-strē-ə-lə-ˈzā-shən 

: the act or process of industrializing : the widespread development of industries in a region, country, culture, etc.

Industrialization and modern insect control have improved the quality of life around the globe, but they have also added some 100,000 chemical compounds that, some scientists worry, could affect the health of people and wildlife.

—Hannah Fairfield

Investors became convinced that growing global demand for energy, the industrialization of China and India and the lack of spare production capacity would keep crude prices surging ever upward.

—A. Gary Shilling

Television, like industrialization and democracy, was slow to arrive in Italy, coming in 1954, several years after it was introduced in the US.

—Alexander Stille

Examples of industrialization in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lieberman, similar to evolutionists before him, blame industrialization for back pain. —Beth Linker, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024

Over the years, due to increasing industrialization in Alkali Flat, as well as low rent and its proximity to downtown businesses, lower income laborers began moving to the area, according to the district plan. —Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 6 Apr. 2024

The data underscores the demographic time bomb that South Korea and other East Asian nations are facing as their societies rapidly age just a few decades after their dramatic industrialization. —Gawon Bae, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024

Vandalism and industrialization destroyed much of the cave and the land around it was used as a dump until recent efforts to reclaim the land and restore it to its natural beauty. —Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024

This changed during the railway boom of the 1830s and the period of industrialization that followed. —Chris Dixon, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2024

The weeks of back and forth on the proposal were the latest chapter in a yearslong grassroots effort to resist further industrialization across southeast Fort Worth. —Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Feb. 2024

Something that Amanda and I talked about when traveling was, at the end, when this dream of industrialization died in the ’80s when neoliberalism started to rise in the region, craft resisted. —Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2024

By the turn of the 20th century, however, more modern methods of tanning, increasing industrialization, and Union Mills’ rural location put the Shriver Tannery at a competitive disadvantage. —Samuel M. Riley, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above