industrialization

noun

in·​dus·​tri·​al·​i·​za·​tion in-ˌdə-strē-ə-lə-ˈzā-shən 

: the act or process of industrializing : the widespread development of industries in a region, country, culture, etc.

Industrialization and modern insect control have improved the quality of life around the globe, but they have also added some 100,000 chemical compounds that, some scientists worry, could affect the health of people and wildlife.

—Hannah Fairfield

Investors became convinced that growing global demand for energy, the industrialization of China and India and the lack of spare production capacity would keep crude prices surging ever upward.

—A. Gary Shilling

Television, like industrialization and democracy, was slow to arrive in Italy, coming in 1954, several years after it was introduced in the US.

—Alexander Stille

Examples of industrialization in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After all, similar shifts occurred in the wake of mass industrialization, such as the arts and crafts movement in the late 19th century, which emerged as a response to the growing automation of labor. —Martin Abel, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2025

By the time McKinley entered Congress, in 1877, industrialization was accelerating rapidly, and his home state, long dependent on agriculture, was emerging as a major center for the mining of coal and the production of iron and steel. —John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025

At its core is the rejection of modernity, the belief that industrialization has corrupted nature and that the past held purer solutions. —Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2025

Haraway ultimately reads the diorama as an expression of the anxieties of white male masculinity in the face of industrialization and racial mixing. —The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for industrialization

• americanization
• anticoagulation
• antidiscrimination
• bioaccumulation
• bioremediation
• compartmentalization
• contextualization
• copolymerization
• decriminalization
• dehumidification
• demilitarization
• demineralization