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post-industrialization

post-industrialization 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-industrialization

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

Words near post-industrialization in the dictionary

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

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