Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A reduction in the size or share of the manufacturing sector in an economy.
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- noun the
loss ordeprivation ofindustrial capacity orstrength
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Examples
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DH: There had been, during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a steady process of deindustrialization, that is, the loss of manufacturing jobs.
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DH: There had been, during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a steady process of deindustrialization, that is, the loss of manufacturing jobs.
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DH: There had been, during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a steady process of deindustrialization, that is, the loss of manufacturing jobs.
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DH: There had been, during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a steady process of deindustrialization, that is, the loss of manufacturing jobs.
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DH: There had been, during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a steady process of deindustrialization, that is, the loss of manufacturing jobs.
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Manufacturing was hit especially hard: From 2001 to 2004, manufacturing lost more jobs than during the entire "deindustrialization" years from the late 1970s through the 1980s, and those losses continued throughout the entire 2002-2007 expansion.
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Politicians tend to equate unemployment with "deindustrialization," as they respond to unemployed steel-workers marching across the television screen.
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In the mid-1980s we were warned that America's "deindustrialization" was making us a nation of low-paid hamburger flippers and laundry workers (see "We're Not a National Laundromat"); the notion couldn't survive the economic boom of the 1990s.
Book Excerpt: 'Untruth: Why The Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong' 2007
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The recession, added to longstanding trends such as deindustrialization and the decline of union jobs - which have affected male workers disproportionately - is hastening this cultural shift away from traditional ideals of married families.
ajc.com - News Mary Sanchez 2010
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The recession, added to longstanding trends such as deindustrialization and the decline of union jobs - which have affected male workers disproportionately - is hastening this cultural shift away from traditional ideals of married families.
ajc.com - News 2010
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