industrialize

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Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb industrialize has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

industrializev. t. & i. 
     To make industrial; to develop so that most of the working population is engaged in non-agricultural labor; to develop economically; -- of nations or geographical areas; as, to industrialize underdeveloped nations.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

industrialize, v. (also -ise)
1 tr. introduce industries to (a country or region etc.).
2 intr. become industrialized.

Derivative
industrialization n.

THESAURUS

industrialize

accomplish, achieve, act, be productive, bring about, bring into being, bring to fruition, cause, commercialize, do, effectuate, engineer, execute, mass-produce, overproduce, perform, produce, realize, volume-produce, work

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