Industrializer

Origin

en + -industrialize + er

Full definition of industrializer

Noun

1. One who industrializes.
• January 7, 2007, Stephen Kotkin, Japan’s Retooling Is Distinctly Japanese, In 19th-century Japan, as well as in Germany, industrializers sought to avert the socialist inclinations of working classes by resorting to extreme repression or paternalism.

Alternative forms

• industrialiser