: technologically simple or unsophisticated
low-tech industries

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That system, whose deployment and improvements have been partly funded by the United States, was designed to work against low-tech rocket and artillery attacks fired from relatively short range. The Editors, National Review, 30 Jan. 2025 While the telescope itself is low-tech, its observations require the most advanced signal processing and data analysis available. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025 What that looks like is decidedly low-tech: a security questionnaire whose asks often run into the hundreds. Alex Konrad, Forbes, 29 Jan. 2025 For most types of relatively low-tech consumer goods, Russian businesses have proved surprisingly adept at developing alternatives, rerouting their supply chains, and providing copycat products of similar quality, though often at higher prices. Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for low-tech 

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of low-tech was in 1967

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“Low-tech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-tech. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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