Definition of "postindustrial" []

• Of or relating to a period in the development of an economy or nation in which the relative importance of manufacturing lessens and that of services, information, and research grows. (adjective)

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• "To augment the brigades 'efforts, TerraCycle also is collecting what's called postindustrial waste from many manufacturers -- which includes excess labels or packaging with misprints that never makes it to market."
• "While many urbanists have dismissed "anti-cities" such as Houston and Los Angeles, which lack such a core, these metropolises will be, in fact, 2050's dominant "postindustrial" urban models."
• "Demonstrating a vastly incompetent grasp of the driving forces behind economic growth in modern "postindustrial" nations - for almost 40 years, now all new income has developed in the USA from developments in"