to deindustrialize
- verb
- /diːˈɪndəstrɪəlaɪz/
- Specialized
- 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.
- That was exploitative and was is has ended up deindustrializing of the United States and Europe.
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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.
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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.
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Policymakers are worried that if we deindustrialize too quickly, it will negatively impact the local economy.
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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.