Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a society or an economic system that is not or has not yet become industrialized.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
culture orsociety that has not yet becomeindustrialized
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Examples
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They also looked at levels that were around in preindustrial times and those we are experiencing today.
Robin Madel: No More Sea Shells by the Seashore -- New Evidence of the Impacts of Rising CO2 Levels Robin Madel 2010
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They also looked at levels that were around in preindustrial times and those we are experiencing today.
Robin Madel: No More Sea Shells by the Seashore -- New Evidence of the Impacts of Rising CO2 Levels Robin Madel 2010
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In preliterate and in preindustrial urban societies, socially successful individuals commonly had larger than average families.
Who Wants More Kids?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Asian living standards were low because of high standards of personal and public hygiene in preindustrial China and Japan.
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Professor Stone cannot at the same time endorse the work of anthropologists and also argue that attitudes toward old age show "much the same ambivalence" in primitive and "preindustrial" society, and assert that attitudes are "not so very different" from preindustrial society to our own time.
Growing Old: An Exchange Fischer, David Hackett 1977
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They argue that attitudes were highly favorable to the aged in "preindustrial" society, before a spirit of "gerontophobia" appeared in the modern world.
Growing Old: An Exchange Fischer, David Hackett 1977
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It would be essential, in other words, to analyze not just the transition from "preindustrial" to industrial conditions, but the whole nexus, political, social, and cultural, in which industrialism grew up at different times and in different places.
An Exchange on Post-Industrial Society Bell, Daniel 1974
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Labels and inscriptions on things manufactured in preindustrial eras often give voice to the objects they adorn, as if bringing them to life, to speak directly or forthrightly to their admirers or potential owners.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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“Just as the minstrel stage held out the possibility that whites could be ‘black’ for a while but nonetheless white,” David Roediger, the leading historian of “whiteness,” has written, “it offered the possibilities that, via blackface, preindustrial joys could survive amidst industrial discipline.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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These “intentional communities” were typically established in remote locations so as to re-create agrarian, preindustrial society.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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