deindustrializing

Verb

deindustrialize (third-person singular simple present deindustrializes, present participle deindustrializing, simple past and past participle deindustrialized)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To subject to deindustrialization; to deprive of industry.
   • Thus, the U.K., the first nation to industrialize, was also the first to deindustrialize.2022 October 25, Derek Thompson, “How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe”, in The Atlantic

   Antonyms:

   industrialize, reindustrialize