1. to reduce or eliminate the industrial base or manufacturing capacity of a region, country, or economy
Usage: British spelling; American equivalent is 'deindustrialize'; typically used in economic and historical contexts

Examples

• The shift to service-based industries began to deindustrialise the region in the 1980s.
• Factory closures deindustrialised many northern cities across the country.
• Economic policies inadvertently deindustrialised the manufacturing sector.
• As automation increased, the nation gradually deindustrialised its workforce.
• The decline of coal mining deindustrialised entire communities that depended on it.