rustbeltnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈrʌst.belt/us/ˈrʌst.belt/an area where there was previously a lot of industry but where most factories are now closed:
a small town in the heart of the rustbelt
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Industry & industrial processes
- carding
- compression moulding
- deindustrialization
- die cutting
- heavy industry
- industrialization
- industry-wide
- injection moulding
- just-in-time
- light industry
- machine carding
- mining
- plastic
- prebuilt
- prefabricated
- quality assurance
- quality control
- raw
- sand-cast
- tertiary
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