Fordism
noun
Fordism is a noun meaning “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…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-D-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Fordism mean?
noun
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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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Fordism?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Fordism.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is Fordism?
Fordism appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fordism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Fordism:
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Where does Fordism come from?
From Ford + -ism, named after American industrialist Henry Ford (1863–1947).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).