Industrialize

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  industrialize \industrialize\ v. t. & i.
     To make industrial; to develop so that most of the working
     population is engaged in non-agricultural labor; to develop
     economically; -- of nations or geographical areas; as, to
     industrialize underdeveloped nations.
     [PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  industrialize
       v 1: organize the production of into an industry; "The Chinese
            industrialized textile production" [syn: {industrialise}]
       2: develop industry; become industrial; "The nations of South
          East Asia will quickly industrialize and catch up with the
          West" [syn: {industrialise}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "industrialize":
     accomplish, achieve, act, be productive, bring about,
     bring into being, bring to fruition, cause, commercialize, do,
     effectuate, engineer, execute, mass-produce, overproduce, perform,
     produce, realize, volume-produce, work