From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Industryindustrializationin‧dus‧tri‧al‧i‧za‧tion (also industrialisation British English) /ɪnˌdʌstriəlaɪˈzeɪʃən $ -ələ-/ noun [uncountable]TIwhen a country or place develops a lot of industry —industrialize /ɪnˈdʌstriəlaɪz/ verb [intransitive, transitive]Examples from the Corpusindustrialization• Conditions would become more conducive to entrepreneurial initiative, capital accumulation, the division of labour, technologicalinnovation, and industrialization.• Modernization and industrialization have contributed to later marriages, for example, as have improvements in educational and employmentopportunities for women.• They are bound to increase even more as industrialization grows.• There can be economicpressures such as industrialization that cause rural to urbanmovement.• Not until the years of fastindustrialization and construction were these defects to be remedied.• Were they talking about the increasing industrialization of the times?• As in the West, the early stages of industrialization were accompanied by harsh working and living conditions.• Nevertheless, the trend towards standardization could be discerned in countries where industrialization had gone furthest.
