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.

… bridges, railways, machinery, and buildings—emblems of the growing industrialization of the nation …

—Naomi Rosenblum

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

India, with its rapid industrialization and expanding middle class, is set to become the largest source of energy demand growth. —Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026

The only film in the category that isn’t explicitly about music in some capacity is Train Dreams, a period piece about the early industrialization of the United States. —Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2026

And nearly omnipresent throughout is the soundtrack by Daniel Blumberg, who brought the rhythms of industrialization and its festering underbelly to 2024’s The Brutalist and won an Oscar for it. —Walden Green, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026

This partnership aims to accelerate the development and industrialization of next-generation batteries, with the potential for these advanced cells to be integrated into future EV models from Changan. —Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026

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