Look up: industrialization

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   Industrialization
   The development of modern forms of industry – factories, machines and large-scale production processes. Industrialization has been one of the main sets of processes influencing the social world over the past two centuries. Those societies which are industrialized have characteristics quite different from those of the less developed countries. For instance, with the advance of industrialization only a tiny proportion of the population works in agriculture – a major contrast with pre-industrial countries.
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   industrialization
   [n] - the development of industry on an extensive scale
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   Industrialization
   A development path based on expanding a country's capacity to process raw materials and manufacture products for consumers, businesses, and export. This approach to development, first seen in northern Europe in the Industrial Revolution typically entails heavy financial investment in factories and power plants and a rapidly growing demand for energ ...
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   industrialization
   industrialisation noun the development of industry on an extensive scale
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   industrialization
   A historical phase and experience. The overall change in circumstances accompanying a society's movement population and resources from farm production to manufacturing production and associated services. Source: Kemp, Thomas. 1985. Industrialization in Nineteenth-Century Europe. page xi. Contexts: history
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   industrialization
   the process of converting to a socioeconomic order in which industry is dominant.[62 related articles]
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   Industrialization
   The establishment and subsequent growth of industrial production in a country, usually meaning heavy manufacturing.
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