deindustrialize
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[edit]From de- + industrialize.
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[edit]deindustrialize (third-person singular simple present deindustrializes, present participle deindustrializing, simple past and past participle deindustrialized)
- (transitive, intransitive) To subject to deindustrialization; to deprive of industry.
- 2022 October 25, Derek Thompson, “How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- Thus, the U.K., the first nation to industrialize, was also the first to deindustrialize.
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