Vocabulary Builder — Essay & Answer Writing
Deindustrialise
verb
/ dee-in-DUS-tree-uh-lyze /
Medium
Meaning
To reduce or destroy a country's or region's industrial capacity, often through deliberate policy or unequal competition
Origin / Etymology
From de- (reversal) + industrialise, ultimately from Latin industria (diligence, activity)
Synonyms
Hollow out
Undermine
Erode
Antonyms
Industrialise
Modernise
Example Sentence
"British tariff policy through the nineteenth century is widely blamed for deindustrialising India's once-dominant handloom textile sector, the very grievance the Swadeshi Movement mobilised against."
🎯 UPSC Usage
Use in GS1 essays on colonial economic history or GS3 answers on India's industrial trajectory, e.g., 'colonial policy deliberately deindustrialised India's textile base, a process later strategic-sector reframing seeks to reverse.'
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