deindustrialize

1.動詞及物 / 不及物C1

釋義

to cause a country, region, or local economy to lose its factories and manufacturing ability, so that it depends less on making physical goods for jobs and income

例句

After the mill closed, Eleanor's family left the deindustrialized town to find work elsewhere.

passive: be deindustrialized + town/region as subject

The trade agreement deindustrialized the English Midlands by making car production too expensive.

transitive: deindustrialize + place + by + cause

同義詞

hollow out
more informal; emphasises the loss of the middle layer of the economy (skilled manufacturing jobs)
shrink the industrial base
more technical and longer; used in policy discussions

反義詞

industrialize
the opposite process — building up a region's manufacturing capacity

文法句型

deindustrialize + place/economy

passive: [place] was deindustrialized

be + deindustrialized + by + cause

用法筆記

Often used in the passive voice because deindustrialization is typically described as something that happens to a place, not something people choose. The subject is usually a region, city, or economic sector — not a single company or person.

常見錯誤

❌The small bakery was deindustrialized by the supermarket.

✅The small bakery went out of business because of the supermarket.

💡'deindustrialize' applies to a whole region or economic sector, not a single small business.

❌They deindustrialized the old factory building.

✅They deindustrialized the region when they closed the factory.

💡The verb describes what happens to an area's economy, not what happens to one building.