: technologically simple or unsophisticated
low-tech industries

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But the controls were narrowly confined to largely low-tech goods, leaving out advanced technologies that could be used by police and leading at times to puzzling priorities. Byron Tau, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025 But some innovations are remarkably low-tech. Tim Lister, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025 Here, the high-tech gadgets met the low-tech of a card game. Rob Wile, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025 While Bob struggles to charge the low-tech phone that’ll connect him with the French 75, Sensei coordinates skateboarders as messengers and directs his relatives and employees to evacuate the dozens of migrants his family is sheltering to a nearby church. Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for low-tech

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First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of low-tech was in 1967

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“Low-tech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-tech. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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