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to deindustrialize

to deindustrialize

8.4
To close factories and reduce industrial activity in a place
  • verb
  • /diːˈɪndəstrɪəlaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : desindustrializar
  • The city plans to deindustrialize its downtown area, transforming factories into residential spaces.

That was exploitative and was is has ended up deindustrializing of the United States and Europe.

Examples

  • We could rapidly deindustrialize in a short amount of time, remediating the land with biochar and restructuring our food production to permaculture/organic farming.

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  • Their plan is to deindustrialize America, and stupid people donate to these groups to help this along.

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  • That was exploitative and was is has ended up deindustrializing of the United States and Europe.

  • It developed and formalized an old upper-class desire to deindustrialize the urban center.

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  • After all, these consequences are borne by those whose hands are far from the levers of power: blue-collar workers deindustrialized out of a job; suburban moms who feel they have less control over their children and their communities; minimum-wage workers in Silicon Valley blocked from joining a union; young adults whose first jobs come with no benefits and no security.

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  • As more manufacturing jobs left, the region began to deindustrialize, leading to a significant increase in unemployment.

  • Policymakers are worried that if we deindustrialize too quickly, it will negatively impact the local economy.

Antonyms

104 4.2

Make something active or popular again after a time of being forgotten

To set up many factories and use machines to make a lot of goods

How Much

to eliminate
  • NSFW
502 3.4
to deindustrialize
  • Specialized
8.4
to reduce
1.6

Surface Forms

deindustrialize infinitive
deindustrialized past participle
deindustrializing present participle
deindustrializes third person singular

Morphology

deindustrialize = industrialize (transparent) = de + industry + al + ize

The meaning is a regular reversal or removal of the process denoted by 'industrialize'.

Etymology

The word deindustrialize breaks into de- meaning 'remove or reverse' and industrialize, which comes from industry meaning 'work in factories'. So, to deindustrialize is to reduce or remove factory activity in a place, like when a town's plants close and the area shifts to other kinds of work.