Deindustrialisation

noun

/diːˌɪndʌstriəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/

The decline or destruction of a nation's industrial capacity, particularly the collapse of indigenous manufacturing under the pressure of foreign competition or colonial economic policies.

✍️ Usage in a UPSC answer

The premature deindustrialisation of several developing economies, where the manufacturing share peaks at far lower income levels than it did for the early industrialisers, poses a formidable challenge to India's aspiration of using a labour-absorbing factory sector to lift millions out of agrarian underemployment.

Synonyms

deindustrializationindustrial declinedeindustrialisation of the economymanufacturing contractioneconomic deindustrialisationindustrial hollowing-out

Antonyms

industrialisationreindustrialisationindustrial growthindustrial expansion

🌱 Word Family

deindustrialise (v), deindustrialised (adj), deindustrialising (v pres.p), deindustrial (adj)

🔡 Root

Latin de- = reversal + industria = diligence, activity + -alisation = process suffix

📜 Etymology

English, from de- (reversal prefix, Latin) + industrialisation (from Latin industria, "diligence, activity").

🧠 Memory Hook

Break it as DE- (undo) + INDUSTRIAL + -ISATION: literally "the un-doing of industry" — picture factory chimneys going cold and silent as the smokestacks come down.

🏛️ History & Culture 📖 Seen in: British Land Revenue & Economic Polici...

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