postindustrial

adjective

post·in·dus·tri·al ˌpōst-in-ˈdə-strē-əl

: occurring in, existing in, or being a period of social and economic development after the predominance of large-scale industry

postindustrial towns

Coastal hubs like New York and San Francisco have staked their futures on postindustrial technology, finance, and business services.—

Aaron M. Renn

Examples of postindustrial in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Globalization driven by a booming Chinese economy drove the postindustrial blight that Vance describes in his memoir. —

David Hodari, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2024 The show has connected a postindustrial Welsh city to the world, uniting fans online and in real life and sparking an economic boon. —

Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024 Sinclair’s utopian dream of a postindustrial society based on leisure and marijuana never went beyond a small group of collaborators. —

Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024 Birth rates, of course, follow long-term trends, and one explanation is the inexorable demographic consequences of becoming a postindustrial country: Russian society started to become modern—with people moving to cities, becoming more educated, and having fewer children—back in the 1960s. —

Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for postindustrial

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