How to say "industrialization" in Japanese

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  • 事業化じぎょうかCommon
    noun, suru verb, transitive verbReally means turning a plan or project into an operating business venture — commercialization — and is seldom the word for a country's economic industrialization.
  • 工業化こうぎょうか
    noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbThe word you want for industrialization in the economic sense: a country or region developing manufacturing industry. Choose it for national economic development and its history.
    その国くには急速きゅうそくに工業化こうぎょうかされた。↗
    The country was industrialized very quickly.
  • 産業化さんぎょうか
    noun, suru verbAlso used for a country's industrialization, but with industry in general rather than manufacturing specifically; it likewise covers a field or activity turning into an industry.

For a country's shift to manufacturing use 工業化; 産業化 views industrialization more broadly, or a field becoming an industry; 事業化 really means turning a plan or project into a business venture.

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