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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a period in the development of an economy or nation in which the relative importance of manufacturing lessens and that of services, information, and research grows.
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- adjective Describing the
economy of anation in whichmanufacturing industry becomes lessimportant and theservice andinformation industries become more important. - adjective music Of a genre of
industrial music following the original industrial music.
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- adjective of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research
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Examples
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To augment the brigades 'efforts, TerraCycle also is collecting what's called postindustrial waste from many manufacturers -- which includes excess labels or packaging with misprints that never makes it to market.
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While many urbanists have dismissed "anti-cities" such as Houston and Los Angeles, which lack such a core, these metropolises will be, in fact, 2050's dominant "postindustrial" urban models.
Inside 'The Next Hundred Million' getAbstract 2010
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Demonstrating a vastly incompetent grasp of the driving forces behind economic growth in modern "postindustrial" nations - for almost 40 years, now all new income has developed in the USA from developments in
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But today, the "postindustrial" mode of imperialism is more about recycling wealth to produce capital gains, mainly by globalizing and privatizing the Bubble Economy.
Darwiniana 2008
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BEIJING — China's rise as the world's second-largest economy highlights a new postindustrial reality: Population counts as much as productivity in determining economic power.
Massive Population Lifts Nation's Growth Bob Davis 2011
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The postmodern, postindustrial, national borders-have-no-meaning labor market waits on no man or woman to get training or an education. jmo says:
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Grozny, as journalists described it, soon resembled a postindustrial wasteland.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Grozny, as journalists described it, soon resembled a postindustrial wasteland.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Literary posterity will probably regard it as an interesting but failed experiment, taking Updike away from his usual themes and mileu, although not completely: its exploration of religious belief is consistent with much of his previous fiction, and the town of New Prospect, New Jersey could easily enough be a depiction of Brewer, Pennsylvania in its own decayed postindustrial latter days.
Updike, John 2010
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Grozny, as journalists described it, soon resembled a postindustrial wasteland.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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