INDUSTRIALISE

industrialize, industrialise

(verb) develop industry; become industrial; “The nations of South East Asia will quickly industrialize and catch up with the West”

industrialize, industrialise

(verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry; “The Chinese industrialized textile production”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

industrialise (third-person singular simple present industrialises, present participle industrialising, simple past and past participle industrialised)

Non-Oxford British standard spelling of industrialize.

Source: Wiktionary



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