industrializing
industrializing is the present participle and gerund of industrialize.
Meaning of industrialize
Verb
industrialize (third-person singular simple present industrializes, present participle industrializing, simple past and past participle industrialized)
- To develop industry; to become industrial.
- To organize along industrial lines.
Adjective
industrializing (comparative more industrializing, superlative most industrializing)
- That is undergoing industrialisation; becoming more industrial.
- [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.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 247
Forms of industrializing
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | industrialising |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more industrializing |
| superlative | most industrializing |
Questions about industrializing
- What does industrializing mean?
- Industrializing means that is undergoing industrialisation; becoming more industrial.
- What is industrializing the present participle and gerund of?
- Industrializing is the present participle and gerund of industrialize.
- What part of speech is industrializing?
- Industrializing is an adjective.
Words near industrializing in the dictionary
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