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

Das was hired in July 2023 as senior director of industrialization for Gotion and Gotion High-Tech, according to the lawsuit. —Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 21 June 2025

Leo is also following in the footsteps of his namesake, Leo XIII, who advocated for better working conditions during a period of rapid industrialization in the late 19th century and early 20th century. —Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 20 June 2025

In the long run, industrialization and migration would transform American politics, but for now the Republican Party remained the primary representative of Northern industrialists, and the Democratic Party largely depended on the South. —John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025

Thanks to a secret brain-swapping experiment, Mabel is able to transfer her mind into a robot beaver and heads to a pond, where refugees from the encroaching industrialization have landed. —Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for industrialization

• americanization
• anticoagulation
• antidiscrimination
• bioaccumulation
• bioremediation
• compartmentalization
• contextualization
• copolymerization
• decriminalization
• dehumidification
• demilitarization
• demineralization