Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An economic and social system based on the development of large-scale industries and marked by the production of large quantities of inexpensive manufactured goods and the concentration of employment in urban factories.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Devotion to industrial pursuits and interests; predominance of industrial interests or activity; also, the characteristics of industrial life, especially of the manufacturing industry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Devotion to industrial pursuits; labor; industry.
- noun The principles or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
socio-economic system based upon theindustrial production ofmanufactured goods, rather than onagriculture .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship
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Examples
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But in any case, though the ugliness of industrialism is the most obvious thing about it and the thing every newcomer exclaims against, I doubt whether it is centrally important.
North and South 1937
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But in any case, though the ugliness of industrialism is the most obvious thing about it and the thing every newcomer exclaims against, I doubt whether it is centrally important.
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But what is known as industrialism brought in its train fear and favour, privilege and poverty, slums, disease, and municipal vice, fostered a too rapid immigration, established in America a tenant system alien to our traditions.
An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea Winston Churchill 1909
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But what is known as industrialism brought in its train fear and favour, privilege and poverty, slums, disease, and municipal vice, fostered a too rapid immigration, established in America a tenant system alien to our traditions.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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The acceptable side of industrialism, which is supposed to be inspired exclusively by utility, is not utility at all but pure achievement.
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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I am at Dyson HQ in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, the beacon of British industrialism, which is
The Guardian World News James Dyson 2011
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American defender of theirs says just the same of their industrialism and free-trade; indeed, this gentleman, taking the bull by the horns, proposes that we should for the [78] future call industrialism culture, and the industrialists the men of culture, and then of course there can be no longer any misapprehension about their true character; and besides the pleasure of being wealthy and comfortable, they will have authentic recognition as vessels of sweetness and light.
Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold 1855
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For the road the dictatorship is now taking, which indeed offers it the only possible hope of even a passable economic success, is the barren, heartless, unspiritual, materialistic tyranny of machine-like "industrialism" which the I.W. W. represents.
The Red Conspiracy Joseph J. Mereto
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It makes sense, to me, that Girl Talk is from Pittsburgh–he’s making a little nest of shiny musical things from the rubble of industrialism aka the pop industry.
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It makes sense, to me, that Girl Talk is from Pittsburgh–he’s making a little nest of shiny musical things from the rubble of industrialism aka the pop industry.
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