adjective
- having undergone a reduction or elimination of industrial activity and manufacturing
Usage: economics; sociology
Examples
- The deindustrialized region struggled with high unemployment after the factories closed.
- Many deindustrialized cities in the Rust Belt have worked to reinvent their economies.
- The deindustrialized landscape was dotted with abandoned warehouses and empty lots.
- Urban planners studied how to revitalize deindustrialized areas through new development.
- The deindustrialized community shifted from manufacturing to service-based jobs.
- Environmental cleanup was needed in the deindustrialized zone due to past pollution.