industrialise

Develop manufacturing capacity

To industrialise is to develop industries on a large scale, transforming an economy from agricultural to manufacturing-based: The country began to industrialise rapidly after the war.

Nations industrialise; so do specific sectors: The region industrialised its textile production.

The process typically involves mechanization, urbanization, and shifts in labor patterns.

British spelling of industrialize.

automation

robotics

Automaton design field

efficiency · sensor · pneumatics · hydraulics · actuator · servomechanism · cybernetics · programming · software · algorithm

manufacturing

factory

Industrial production facility

machinery · fabrication · mill · foundry · forge · plant · steelworks · shipbuilding · textiles · workshop

development

modernization

Adoption of current methods

progress · growth · expansion · reform · restructuring · upgrade · improvement · productivity · efficiency · prosperity

urbanization

metropolis

Large important city

migration · slums · pollution · congestion · sewerage · railway · canal · housing · sanitation · smokestacks

Opposites
economic development model

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Remove manufacturing base

agrarian · rusticate · mechanise

technological trajectory

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Remove manufacturing base

regress · simplify · revert

environmental/social philosophy

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Restore natural ecosystem

naturalize · decarbonise · return to nature

Family

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Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G