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industrialisation

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  • noun Alternative spelling of industrialization.

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  • noun the development of industry on an extensive scale

Etymologies

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industrialise +‎ -ation

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Examples

  • We believe that the process of industrialisation is essential to the prosperity of the country.

    Grenada: Readiness for the 21st Century 1999

  • "It represents a significant step forward in scaling up our efforts to promote long term industrialisation and industrial diversification beyond our current reliance on traditional commodities and non-tradable services," he said.

    IOL: News 2010

  • The Boers have in fact shown no talent for industrialisation, which is largely in the hands of people of British descent.

    STATEMENT IN THE SPECIAL POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1957

  • But the idea of industrialisation was jettisoned from the official aid agenda in the 1980s with the onset of the free-market creed that has become established in the Washington consensus approach, which calls for minimal government intervention.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • The government, however, did not abandon the project that was to be a landmark in its course of 'industrialisation'.

    unknown title 2009

  • The government, however, did not abandon the project that was to be a landmark in its course of 'industrialisation'.

    unknown title 2009

  • Ultimately the young are right to feel aggrieved but the huge pyramid investment scheme that was industrialisation was bound to leave some generation holding worthless bits of paper and debt.

    No country for young people: is this generation under strain? 2011

  • This gritty, down-to-earth quality, in keeping with the industrialisation that was spreading through the US at the time, was enshrined in the school motto, Mens et Manus – Mind and Hand – as well as its logo, which showed a gowned scholar standing beside an ironmonger bearing a hammer and anvil.

    The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius 2011

  • Then, yay, you get industrialisation of the food supply to replace good old starvation, and now you get a CHOICE.

    Unthinkable? Banishing breastfeeding guilt | Editorial 2011

  • This last point is important to historians because it suggests the working classes who experienced industrialisation (in 1764 Hargreaves would invent the spinning jenny to be followed later by Arkwright's spinning frame) were not shut out from its benefits and pleasures.

    Threads of feeling Kathryn Hughes 2010

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