industrializing

English

Alternative forms

• industrialising (UK)

Verb

industrializing

1. present participle and gerund of industrialize

Adjective

industrializing (comparative more industrializing, superlative most industrializing)

1. That is undergoing industrialisation; becoming more industrial.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 247:

     [T]he Lunar Society of Birmingham […] aimed to develop knowledge useful to an industrialising society and included among its luminaries the potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730–95), the physician William Withering (1741–99), the chemist Joseph Priestly and James Watt.