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post-industrialisation

post-industrialisation is the alternative form of postindustrialization.

Meaning of postindustrialization

Noun

postindustrialization (uncountable)

  1. The period marked by decline in industrialization and a social movement from blue-collar to white-collar jobs.
    • In working out their design, the architects also kept in mind the movement from industrialization to postindustrialization, from global to local, from the free market to the farmer’s market, and from sand to hay.2008 February 7, Robin Pogrebin, “Betting a Farm Would Work in Queens”, in New York Times

Questions about post-industrialisation

What is post-industrialisation the alternative form of?
Post-industrialisation is the alternative form of postindustrialization.

Words near post-industrialisation in the dictionary

  1. post-impressionisms
  2. post-increment
  3. post-incremented
  4. post-incrementing
  5. post-increments
  6. post-industrialisation
  7. post-industrialization
  8. post-internet
  9. post-ironic
  10. post-ironies
  11. post-irony

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