industrialize

• POS: Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: in=dus=tri=al=ize

CIDE DICTIONARY

industrialize, v. t. & i. 

 To make industrial; to develop so that most of the working population is engaged in non-agricultural labor; to develop economically; -- of nations or geographical areas; as, to industrialize underdeveloped nations.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

industrialize, v. (also -ise)
1 tr. introduce industries to (a country or region etc.).
2 intr. become industrialized.

Derivative

industrialization n.

THESAURUS

industrialize

accomplish, achieve, act, be productive, bring about, bring into being, bring to fruition, cause, commercialize, do, effectuate, engineer, execute, mass-produce, overproduce, perform, produce, realize, volume-produce, work