(dated, 19th-mid 20th century) An employee in industry. / (business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.

A process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a preindustrial to an industrial state.

(of a country) To develop industry; to become industrial. / (of a process) To organize along industrial lines.

Having undergone industrialization

simple past tense and past participle of industrialize

plural of industry

The socio-economic system based upon the industrial production of manufactured goods, rather than on agriculture.

present participle of industrialize

That is undergoing industrialisation; becoming more industrial.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of industrialize