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industrialized

industrialized

20 4.0
A country or area with many factories that make goods
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈdʌstriəlaɪzd/
translation icon : industrializado
  • 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.

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Examples

  • The new UN climate report warns that if industrialized countries don't change their behavior soon, the world could be on a catastrophic pathway.

  • Popular culture is, for many children in industrialized societies, a major source of pleasure.

    Academic text (2012)
  • We're an industrialized nation, US, Europe.

  • Unless you stop having kids, which happens as a nation becomes industrialized, right?

  • At one time or another, most industrialized countries have been donors of aid.

    Academic text (1993)
  • This is virtually unknown in most Western industrialized countries.

  • Savings rates have been consistently higher than in other industrialized countries.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The United States ranks close to the bottom in illiteracy among industrialized countries.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Activists crowded the streets near UN headquarters today as major industrialized nations meet for the fourth time to discuss global warming initiatives.

  • Germany is known as an industrialized nation with a strong automotive sector.

Synonyms

developed
vsindustrialized
14 2.7

A country with a strong industry and a high standard of living

emphasizes a shift to a manufacturing and production based economy
highly developed
vsindustrialized
4 3.9

A country or society with advanced industry, economy, and technology

focuses on an economy based largely on manufacturing and production

Antonyms

A country or area that does not have many factories to make goods

How Industrialized

developed
14 2.7
industrialized
20 4.0
agrarian
13 6.5

Surface Forms

industrialized positive
industrialising positive
industrialise positive

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.