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Fordism

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An economic and social system based on industrial mass production, where the worker is paid relatively high wages in order to buy in large quantity the products turned out in mass production.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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History

Etymology

From Ford + -ism, named after American industrialist Henry Ford (1863–1947).

Across languages

Translations

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: فَوْرِدِيَّة (fawridiyya) — Fordism
  • Armenian: ֆորդիզմ (fordizm) — Fordism
  • Basque: fordismo — Fordism
  • Belarusian: фардызм (fardyzm) — Fordism
  • Catalan: fordisme — Fordism
  • Chinese: 福特制 (ford-chú-gī) — Fordism
  • Chinese Mandarin: 福特制 (fútèzhì) — Fordism
  • Czech: fordismus — Fordism
  • Danish: fordisme — Fordism
  • Dutch: fordisme — Fordism
  • Esperanto: fordismo — Fordism
  • Finnish: fordismi — Fordism
  • French: fordisme — Fordism
  • Galician: fordismo — Fordism
  • German: Fordismus — Fordism
  • Greek: φορντισμός (forntismós) — Fordism
  • Icelandic: fordismi — Fordism
  • Indonesian: fordisme — Fordism
  • Italian: fordismo — Fordism
  • Japanese: フォーディズム (fōdizumu) — Fordism
  • Korean: 포드주의 (podeujuui) — Fordism
  • Macedonian: фордизам (fordizam) — Fordism
  • Malay: fordisme — Fordism
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fordisme — Fordism
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: fordisme — Fordism
  • Occitan: fordisme — Fordism
  • Persian: فوردگرایی — Fordism
  • Polish: fordyzm — Fordism
  • Portuguese: fordismo — Fordism
  • Romanian: fordism — Fordism
  • Russian: форди́зм (fordízm) — Fordism
  • Serbo-Croatian: фордѝзам — Fordism
  • Serbo-Croatian: fordìzam — Fordism
  • Slovak: fordizmus — Fordism
  • Slovene: fordizem — Fordism
  • Spanish: fordismo — Fordism
  • Swedish: fordism — Fordism
  • Turkish: fordizm — Fordism
  • Ukrainian: фордизм (fordyzm) — Fordism