(noun) A socioeconomic system based on the development of large-scale industries particularly inexpensive manufactured goods and mechanized food production concentrated in urban areas.
Example: The socioeconomic system of the United States.
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- Industrialsm is a primary subsistence strategy along with agriculture; horticulture; hunting and gathering; pastoralism; and slash-and-burn.
- Also called industrialization.
- An (noun) industrialist (verb) industrializes an (noun) industry to become more (adjective) industrial or (adjective) industrialistic.
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