industrialized
- adjective
- /ɪnˈdʌstriəlaɪzd/
- The United States is the only major industrialized nation without paid family leave.
- industrialized countries
- industrialized nations
- industrialized societies
This is virtually unknown in most Western industrialized countries.
- This is virtually unknown in most Western industrialized countries.
- If you contrast them with individuals who come from other western industrialized societies.
- Yet we have the worst, we have the most disease and the shortest lifespan of all industrialized nations.
- You know, condoms is another thing that that works a little bit better in the industrialized nations.
- In some other societies, including Western industrialized societies, there are more rights than there are here in the US.
- OK, so this is is this is like the oldest industrialized book binding.
- So it's a industrialized countries, OECD, roughly.
- By your argument, are you saying that only industrialized nations with a high cost of living are making cottons and silks?
- All the other industrialized nations and academics and economics are like what you want to go back to that era?
Examples
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The new UN climate report warns that if industrialized countries don't change their behavior soon, the world could be on a catastrophic pathway.
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Popular culture is, for many children in industrialized societies, a major source of pleasure.
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We're an industrialized nation, US, Europe.
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Unless you stop having kids, which happens as a nation becomes industrialized, right?
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At one time or another, most industrialized countries have been donors of aid.
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This is virtually unknown in most Western industrialized countries.
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Savings rates have been consistently higher than in other industrialized countries.
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The United States ranks close to the bottom in illiteracy among industrialized countries.
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Activists crowded the streets near UN headquarters today as major industrialized nations meet for the fourth time to discuss global warming initiatives.
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Germany is known as an industrialized nation with a strong automotive sector.
Synonyms
A country with a strong industry and a high standard of living
A country or society with advanced industry, economy, and technology
Antonyms
How Industrialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
industrialized = industrialize (transparent) = industrial + ize + ed
Formed from the verb 'industrialize' plus the past-participle/adjectival marker '-ed', a regular and semantically transparent derivation.
Etymology
Industrialized comes from industry, meaning 'work' or 'business that makes things', and the ending -ize, which means 'to make or become'. So, an industrialized country is one that has become full of factories and making of goods, which is the modern meaning.