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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. organize (the production of something) into an industry;
- Example: "The Chinese industrialized textile production"
[syn: industrialize, industrialise]

2. develop industry; become industrial;
- Example: "The nations of South East Asia will quickly industrialize and catch up with the West"
[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