Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
full-scale \full-scale\ adj. using all available resources; -- of actions; as, a full-scale effort to find the perpetrator.
Syn: all-out.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a model or replica English) Of the same size, scale, or proportions as an original object. 2 thorough; complete; not lacking in any detail.
WordNet
adj. using all available resources; "all-out war"; "a full-scale campaign against nuclear power plants" [syn: all-out]
Usage examples of "full-scale".
If the Berrigans were to get the chair, to be sure Hollywood would immediately go into full-scale production of some kind of musical about them, along the line of Going My Way.
It would take a full-scale massacre to make Bloch safe from suspicion.
According to the system, those MPs and the civ cops are only supposed to provide security against individual nut cases, not a full-scale raid.
Ruth on TV for answers to rudimentary anatomical questions, it would seem infinitely more responsible for these esteemed wives and mothers to demand a full-scale Congressional demystification of the subject.
There has been another full-scale dieback in North Africa due to drought and lack of food reserves.
I consider the proposal to send the Standing Naval Force to disrupt these perfectly legitimate Soviet naval exercises is unjustified, dangerous in the extreme, and, in the sense that such provocation and resultant confrontation could well lead to the outbreak of full-scale war, highly irresponsible.
The danger was that, in carrying out a raid to secure a given volume for long enough to hunt down the information they were looking for, the Mercatoria would cause the Dwellers to react as though they were undergoing a full-scale invasion.
It contained a small but full-scale nuclear reactor, which produced gamma rays used for NDI, or nondestructive inspection, of military aircraft.
If the United States opts for regime change, the Egyptians will prefer covert action, but if that is not possible, they will urge a full-scale invasion to ensure that the operation is over as quickly and surely as possible.
We overflew the southern deserts and passed Qandahar without incident, but a full-scale battle had broken out further up the Tarkan valley towards Kabul.
The Abrams was rocked by the blast-wave and the terrific overpressure but all the seals, designed back in the 1970s for full-scale war against the long-defunct Soviet Union, held and the crew survived.
In 1979, for example, a proposal was made to the ARCE for a full-scale mapping survey involving the Great Sphinx and its enclosure in which use would be made of modern photogrammetric techniques to record every detail, crack, fissure, contour and outline of the monument.
Darcy set up a small mushroom operation on Trox Island, but I was told, second-hand, by full-scale mushroom growers, that the Trox operation was too small to succeed.
United States were willing to threaten a full-scale invasion of Iraq, both the Iraqis and their advocates in the United Nations would be willing to accept a robust inspections regime as their only alternative.
However, because they believe that it would be preferable for the United States to overthrow Saddam without using ground troops if at all possible, they argue for trying the Afghan Approach and then if, after a certain amount of time, it is not working, launching a full-scale invasion.