[syn: industrialize, industrialise]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
industrialize
v 1: organize (the production of something) into an industry;
"The Chinese industrialized textile production" [syn:
industrialize, industrialise]
2: develop industry; become industrial; "The nations of South
East Asia will quickly industrialize and catch up with the
West" [syn: industrialize, industrialise]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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