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INDUSTRIALISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does industrialism mean?
• INDUSTRIALISM (noun)
The noun INDUSTRIALISM has 1 sense:
1. an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship
Familiarity information: INDUSTRIALISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("industrialism" is a kind of...):
economic system; economy (the system of production and distribution and consumption)
Derivation:
industrialise (develop industry; become industrial)
industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)
industrialize (develop industry; become industrial)
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