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post-industrial

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Industry, Economics, Computers
ˌpost-inˈdustrial adjective  TIPErelating to the period in the late 20th century when the older types of industry became less important, and computers became more important 后工业化的,工业化之后的〔指20世纪晚期旧有的工业类型重要性下降,而计算机产业的重要性则增加〕 the post-industrial information-based society 后工业化信息社会
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post-industrialThis is how I helped produce an article on the new post-industrial economy.The attempt by residents to develop in their own eyes a post-industrial ethic was not realizable without consequences and contradictions.In a post-industrial information economy, the differences become more pronounced and more divisive as the length and necessity of schooling increase.You can not, in a post-industrial nation, make more than fitful sense of an early Victorian doctrine of class-war.Yes, this is post-industrial noise in the genre of the completely unlistenable Test Department.Second and more fundamental: is there nowadays any normal average level of fertility to which post-industrial societies are tending?Clearly, the post-industrial world is changing attitudes as well as places.post-industrial ... societyBy and large, the academic community seems content simply to accommodate to the instrumental needs of post-industrial society.Second and more fundamental: is there nowadays any normal average level of fertility to which post-industrial societies are tending?
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post-industrial
ˌpost-inˈdustrial adjective
relating to the period in the late 20th century when the older types of industry became less important, and computers became more important:
    the post-industrial information-based society


post-industrialBrE /ˌpəʊst ɪnˈdʌstriəl/ 🔊NAmE /ˌpoʊst ɪnˈdʌstriəl/ 🔊 adjective [only before noun] (of a place or society 地方或社会) no longer relying on heavy industry (= the production of steel, large machinery, etc.) 后工业化的;不再依赖重工业的