- industrialize⇄industrialize, verb, -ized,-izing.
- industrialize⇄noun industrializer.
- industrialize⇄v.i. to become industrial; develop large industries.
Ex. Communist China must increase its foreign trade to industrialize (Harper's). - industrialize⇄v.t. 1. to make industrial; develop large industries as an important feature in (a country or economic system).
Ex. Industrialized nations consume natural resources at several times the rate of agrarian countries (Newsweek).
2. to organize a