industrialize
Shift to manufacturing
Industrialize means to develop industry on a large scale, transforming an economy from agricultural to manufacturing-based.
Countries industrialize by building factories, infrastructure, and adopting mechanized production: China industrialized rapidly in the late twentieth century.
The process can also apply to specific sectors: to industrialize food production.
Industrialized nations are those with developed manufacturing economies.
Industrial production facility
- mass-productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
- plantBotanical organism
- millGrain-crushing facility
- foundryMetal casting facility
forge · workshop · conveyor · machinery · production · fabrication · smokestack · laborers
Adoption of current methods
- transformationThorough change in form
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- innovationCreating something original
efficiency · productivity · breakthrough · mechanization · revolution · reform · prosperity · emergence
Collective mechanical equipment
- gearsToothed rotating machine parts
- loomsEmerges menacingly, or textile frames
- spinningRevolving around an axis
- motorsMachines that produce motion
lathes · drills · hydraulics · pulleys · cogs · sprockets · turbine · automation
Private profit-based economy
- investmentDeploying capital for returns
- growthIncrease in size
- commercializationProfit-driven market introduction
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
enterprise · entrepreneurship · diversification · scale · expansion · sector · workforce · trade
factory
Industrial production facility
- mass-productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
- plantBotanical organism
- millGrain-crushing facility
foundry · forge · workshop · conveyor · machinery · production · fabrication · smokestack · laborers · shifts
modernization
Adoption of current methods
- transformationThorough change in form
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- developmentProgress toward maturity
innovation · efficiency · productivity · breakthrough · mechanization · revolution · reform · prosperity · emergence · transition
machinery
Collective mechanical equipment
- gearsToothed rotating machine parts
- loomsEmerges menacingly, or textile frames
- spinningRevolving around an axis
motors · lathes · drills · hydraulics · pulleys · cogs · sprockets · turbine · automation · robotics
capitalism
Private profit-based economy
- investmentDeploying capital for returns
- growthIncrease in size
- commercializationProfit-driven market introduction
globalization · enterprise · entrepreneurship · diversification · scale · expansion · sector · workforce · trade · export
metropolis
Large important city
- migrationMovement to new territory
- sprawlExtend in disorderly fashion
- tenementMulti-unit urban dwelling
pollution · sewerage · slum · housing · commute · infrastructure · railroad · canal · port · electrification
industrializedeindustrialize
Dismantle manufacturing capacity
ruralize · rust · decline · decarbonize · subsistence farm
industrializeagrarian
Relating to land cultivation
handicraft · artisanal · subsistence farming · pre-industrial · rusticate
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