industrial development

Manufacturing sector expansion

Industrial development is the growth and expansion of manufacturing, factories, and related infrastructure in a region or economy.

The term often appears in policy discussions about transforming agricultural societies into industrial ones, or about attracting factories and jobs to an area: The mayor promised industrial development would bring thousands of jobs.

It can also refer to the physical transformation of land for industrial use: Industrial development along the river displaced wildlife habitats.

Opposites
economic mode

industrial developmentagrarian economy

Agriculture-dominated financial structure

agricultural society · subsistence farming · cottage industry · feudal economy · nomadic lifestyle

economic trajectory

industrial developmenteconomic stagnation

Persistent lack of growth

industrial decline · deindustrialization · economic collapse · underdevelopment · arrested development

environmental philosophy

industrial developmentnature conservation

Protecting wild habitats

rewilding · land preservation · primitivism · wilderness preservation · environmental preservation

Family

develop, industry, development, industrious

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Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G