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n. - The development of commercial enterprises on an extensive scale.

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  • For those people, de-industrialization is something to be encouraged rather than resisted.
  • Today, the surest road to industrialization is the establishment of large units, branch plants and subsidiaries, in developing areas by domestic or foreign corporations.
  • This is what Fujitsu-Siemens calls the industrialization of business software and services.
  • The basic change in the nature of legal practice is what you could call the industrialization of law.
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