industrializer

English

Etymology

industrialize +‎ -er

Noun

industrializer (plural industrializers)

1. One who industrializes.
   • 2007 January 7, Stephen Kotkin, “Japan’s Retooling Is Distinctly Japanese”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In 19th-century Japan, as well as in Germany, industrializers sought to avert the socialist inclinations of working classes by resorting to extreme repression or paternalism.

Alternative forms

• industrialiser