verb
- to reduce or eliminate industrial activity in a region or country
Usage: often used in economic and political contexts
Examples
- The government’s policies began to deindustrialize the rust belt region.
- Many former mining towns have been deindustrialized over the past decades.
- Economic shifts can deindustrialize entire metropolitan areas.
- The region struggled after factories closed and the area became deindustrialized.
- Trade agreements may deindustrialize certain sectors of the economy.
- Urban planners studied how to revitalize areas that had been deindustrialized.