LARGE-SCALE


Meaning of LARGE-SCALE in English

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.

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