Definition of "deindustrialize" []

• To cause (a nation or area) to lose or be deprived of industrial capability or strength: felt that America was being deindustrialized by foreign competition. (verb-transitive)
• To undergo or suffer loss of industrial infrastructure and potential. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Since you're the one advocating a global tax that will enrich speculators, further deindustrialize the west and destroy the 3rd world, I won't bother bearing the burden of proof. by"
• "Washington wanted to deindustrialize the country to permanently destroy the old Soviet economic structure."
• "The only way to achieve emissions that low is to deindustrialize and return to an existence reminiscent of the 19th century."