Deindustrialize

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To subject to deindustrialization; to deprive of industry. intransitive, transitive

    "Thus, the U.K., the first nation to industrialize, was also the first to deindustrialize."

Etymology

From de- + industrialize.

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