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pre-industrial

pre-industrial is the alternative form of preindustrial.

Meaning of preindustrial

Adjective

preindustrial (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the period before the Industrial Revolution and the global industrialization that followed.
    • Civilization has already exceeded a global warming of ~1.0◦C above pre-industrial conditions[.]2021 January 13, Corey J.A. Bradshaw et al., “Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future”, in Frontiers in Conservation Science
  2. Not yet industrialized.
    • a preindustrial nation

Questions about pre-industrial

What is pre-industrial the alternative form of?
Pre-industrial is the alternative form of preindustrial.

Words near pre-industrial in the dictionary

  1. pre-incubate
  2. pre-incubated
  3. pre-incubates
  4. pre-incubating
  5. pre-Indo-European
  6. pre-industrial
  7. pre-instructional
  8. pre-interview
  9. pre-interviews
  10. pre-Islamic
  11. pre-K

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