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de·in·dus·tri·al·i·za·tion

(dē′ĭn-dŭs′trē-ə-lĭ-zā′shən)
n.
A reduction in the size or share of the manufacturing sector in an economy.

de′in·dus′tri·a·lize′ v.
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deindustrialization

(ˌdiːɪnˌdʌstrɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən) or

deindustrialisation

n
(Economics) the decline in importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of a nation or area
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But while the area around Dinorwig Quarry is now silent, it's certainly not deindustrialised.
But for all the fridge magnets, mugs and tea towels, coffee-table books and advertising, what wasn't clear to me then was how recently the Mackintosh image had been cultivated as part of the general effort to revive the civic pride of a deindustrialised city.
MO'N: That resonates with Labour's need to be able to appeal both to younger, more-educated, urban voters, and to older voters living in small towns and deindustrialised areas.
He said: "It is a deindustrialised area and people may have been prescribed painkillers for aches and pains, and may well have been on them for years.
One of Mabey's earliest books, The Unofficial Countryside (1973), dedicated to Allsop, mapped the flora and fauna of deindustrialised areas like abandoned docks, railway cuttings and industrial estates.
She deindustrialised the country, the Big Bang in the City of London unleashing greed which erupted into the 2008 banking collapse.
"That is a massive opportunity not only to do the right thing for the environment but to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, to capitalise on our cutting edge technology in the scientific and research communities and our first-rate universities, rejuvenate parts of the economy which have been deindustrialised.
Bad parenting, alcohol abuse, racism, class segregation and the use of physical and verbal violence as the only means of self-assertion for working-class men within modern deindustrialised societies can be traced in the first-person biographic accounts of 'terrace legends' Cass Pennant (Cass) and Carlton Leach (Rise of the Foot Soldier), as well as in the lives of the fictional characters Paul Carty (Awaydays) and Tommy Johnson (The Football Factory), thereby illustrating the aftermath of Thatcherism on British young adults.
1991, 'Guilding the Smokestacks: The New Symbolic Representations of Deindustrialised Regions', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, no.
German cities of Cologne, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Hannover and Berlin highlight how the Federal Government had regenerated its deindustrialised cities.
(2006) Conflict and consensus in redevelopment of deindustrialised property in Sydney: PhD Thesis, Macquarie University.

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