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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
large-scale
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a large/large-scale enterprise
▪ The company has grown into a large-scale enterprise that employs hundreds of people.
large-scale unemployment (=when a lot of people are unemployed)
▪ Large-scale unemployment among young people could have terrible social consequences.
large-scale (=showing a small area in a lot of detail)
▪ a large-scale map of Paris
mass/large-scale redundancies
▪ The company is preparing large-scale redundancies at its British factories.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
enterprise
▪ Studies and statistics underline the fact: 200 large-scale enterprises control about half the fabulous material wealth of the United States.
immigration
▪ The large-scale immigration of Low Country Sinhalese disrupted the local social structure.
industry
▪ Within large-scale industry, the crippling specialisation of the individual machine-minders is one aspect of the division of labour.
▪ Marx originally argued that the growth of large-scale industry led to the demise of the peasantry and the development of the proletariat.
▪ The question of scale: Marx identified the rise of large-scale industry as one of the progressive features of capitalism.
▪ Steam-power meant a new and intense concentration of large-scale industry and of the labour force to man it.
▪ For Weber, a bureaucracy was a special form of social organisation particularly associated with modern, large-scale industry and commerce.
▪ This figure was 2.7 times higher than for employees in large-scale industry.
map
▪ The plan showed the outlines of a dozen houses and a service road superimposed on a large-scale map.
▪ He found a large-scale map of the Sahara and studied it.
▪ Chapter Two Sam McCready spent most of the next day, Monday, poring over large-scale maps and photographs.
▪ A large-scale map of the Woodfield Estate lay before him.
▪ She plotted the figures on a large-scale map with the help of aerial photographs.
▪ The living room was fitted as a command post with radio and large-scale maps on the wall.
▪ A large-scale map was pinned to one wall and there was a blackboard for briefings.
▪ Taped to the wall above the mantelpiece was a large-scale map of Moon Beach.
production
▪ Complex technology requires large-scale production, and so the need for huge investments of capital and large organisational structures.
▪ In fact, the textile industry more than any other made possible relatively large-scale production in a still traditional artisan world.
project
▪ The large-scale project needs up to fifteen volunteers at a time, distributed amongst five scientists.
▪ DecentralizedHow can any large-scale project ever get anything done with only ten people?
study
▪ As yet there have been few large-scale studies of technicians involved in scaling up genetic engineering processes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
large-scale

large-scale \large-scale\ adj.

  1. large in area, scope or degree; as, a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed.

    Syn: extensive, wide-ranging.

  2. constructed or drawn to a big scale[4]; as, large-scale maps. See 3rd scale, n., sense 4.

  3. widespread; applying to all or most members of a category or group.

    Syn: mass.

Wiktionary
large-scale

a. 1 Large in amount, scope or extent. 2 (context of a map or image English) drawn large so as to show detail.

WordNet
large-scale

  1. adj. unusually large in scope; "a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed"

  2. constructed or drawn to a big scale; "large-scale maps"

  3. occurring widely (as to many people); "mass destruction" [syn: mass]

Usage examples of "large-scale".

King, a stocky fifty-eight-year-old artillery man from Atlanta who wore a neatly cropped full mustache, was at that moment standing before a sheet of plywood on which a large-scale map of the Bataan Peninsula had been mounted.

If a large-scale attack resulted in mass casualties, the first choices would be doxycycline and ciprofloxacin, taken orally, for both adults and children.

Predictably, Haiti then became the site of the first large-scale slave revolt, when blacks and Indians banded together in 1519.

The Krefeld target file: was open and large-scale maps, target maps, plans, diagrams and vertical photos were arranged around it.

The yellowish-gray topsoil of the Kursk region highlighted every large-scale move made by both sides.

These magnetic fields wrestled with the complex magnetohydro-dynamic weavings of the sun itself, strengthening weakened fields to control sunspots, maintaining large-scale magnetostatic equilibrium to prevent coronal mass ejections, hindering the nested magnetic loop re-connections that caused flares.

A large-scale map of the whole northern and central Mozambican provinces of Zambia and Monica covered one wall.

With the large-scale development of the neocortex in higher mammals and primates, some neocortical involvement in the dream state developed-a symbolic language is, after all, still a language.

One such circuitous path is traced by the history of large-scale colonial slave production in the Americas between the late seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, a history that is not precapitalist but rather within the complex and contradictory developments of capital.

The beings multiplied by means of spores - like vegetable pteridophytes, as Lake had suspected - but, owing to their prodigious toughness and longevity, and consequent lack of replacement needs, they did not encourage the large-scale development of new prothallia except when they had new regions to colonize.

The beings multiplied by means of spores--like vegetable pteridophytes, as Lake had suspected--but, owing to their prodigious toughness and longevity, and consequent lack of replacement needs, they did not encourage the large-scale development of new prothallia except when they had new regions to colonize.

But look at large-scale boondoggles such as the Grand Prix and the Lipton tennis tournament, which have transformed Bicentennial and Crandon parks respectively.

I believe that the radio, especially in countries where listening-in to foreign broadcasts is not forbidden, is making large-scale lying more and more difficult.

Uprisings in Congo Basin result in large-scale deportations and unrest.

Fearing that his control was threatened, he ordered large-scale arrests and executions, which backfired and destabilized his regime for months afterward.