deindustrialize

From de- +‎ industrialize.

deindustrialize (third-person singular simple present deindustrializes, present participle deindustrializing, simple past and past participle deindustrialized)

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

   Alternative form: deindustrialise

   Antonyms: industrialize, reindustrialize

   • 2022 October 25, Derek Thompson, “How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

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

• deindustrialization