postindustrial
adjEtymology From post- + industrial.
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Describing the economy of a nation in which manufacturing industry becomes less important and the service and information industries become more important.
- One hypermodern trend entails technological development, producing a postindustrial, information-infused society. This also leads to globalization...2000, Stuart S Nagel, Handbook of global political policy:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Of or relating to a genre of music derived from industrial music but with electronic and rock influences.
- Derived terms
- postindustrially
- Related terms
- deindustrialization, postindustrialization, reindustrialization