INDUSTRIALISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does industrialisation mean? 

• INDUSTRIALISATION (noun)
  The noun INDUSTRIALISATION has 1 sense:

1. the development of industry on an extensive scale

  Familiarity information: INDUSTRIALISATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDUSTRIALISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The development of industry on an extensive scale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

industrial enterprise; industrialisation; industrialization

Hypernyms ("industrialisation" is a kind of...):

industry; manufacture (the organized action of making of goods and services for sale)

Derivation:

industrialise (develop industry; become industrial)

 Context examples 

Although plastic waste per person is highest in high-income countries, most mismanaged waste tends to arise from low-to-middle-income countries, where waste management systems have not kept pace with growing populations and industrialisation.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)